Hedging geopolitical risk with precious metals

DG Baur, LA Smales - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2020 - Elsevier
We analyse the relationship between geopolitical risk and asset prices and show that
geopolitical risk is distinct from existing measures of economic, financial, and political risk …

Global implementation of obesity prevention policies: a review of progress, politics, and the path forward

R Lyn, E Heath, J Dubhashi - Current Obesity Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review describes policy and regulatory strategies to
prevent obesity and summarizes worldwide progress and impediments to scaling up …

The role of economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk in predicting prices of precious metals: evidence from a time-varying bootstrap causality test

V Yilanci, EN Kilci - Resources Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The main objective of this paper is to analyze the causality effect of economic policy
uncertainty and geopolitical risk on the prices of precious metals. We employ the Hacker and …

Does crackdown on corruption reduce stock price crash risk? Evidence from China

Y Chen, Y Xie, H You, Y Zhang - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2018 - Elsevier
This study examines whether crackdown on political corruption in China affects future stock
price crashes. Using data from corruption-related prosecutions, we find that firms under …

Political risk and bank stability in the Middle East and North Africa region

M Al-Shboul, A Maghyereh, A Hassan… - Pacific-Basin Finance …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relationship between political risk and bank stability in the Middle
East and North Africa (MENA) region. We find that political risk is adversely associated with …

Geopolitical risks and historical exchange rate volatility of the BRICS

AA Salisu, J Cuñado, R Gupta - International Review of Economics & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The predictability of geopolitical risks (GPR) for exchange rate volatility of the BRICS is
examined using both historical and recent GPR data. Relying on the GARCH-MIDAS-X …

Time-varying rare disaster risks, oil returns and volatility

R Demirer, R Gupta, T Suleman, ME Wohar - Energy Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper provides a novel perspective to the predictive ability of rare disaster risks for West
Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil market returns and volatility using a nonparametric quantile …

Role of global, regional, and advanced market economic policy uncertainty on bond spreads in emerging markets

M Balcilar, O Usman, H Gungor, D Roubaud… - Economic …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the predictive content of news-based advanced market, regional,
and global economic policy uncertainty (EPU) measures for bond spreads and their volatility …

Political tensions, stock market dependence and volatility spillover: Evidence from the recent intra-GCC crises

L Charfeddine, H Al Refai - The North American Journal of Economics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact of the two recent political and economic crises of March
2014 and June 2017 on the stock market dependence and volatility spillover between Qatar …

Geopolitical risk and forecastability of tail risk in the oil market: Evidence from over a century of monthly data

AA Salisu, C Pierdzioch, R Gupta - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Using monthly data for the period from 1916 to 2020, we report that geopolitical risk, when
decomposed into threats and actual risk, has predictive value for tail risk in the oil market …