Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1515/zireb-2015-0008
Oil-Price Volatility and Macroeconomic Spillovers in Central and Eastern Europe: evidence from a Multivariate GARCH Model
Scott W. Hegerty
; Northeastern Illinois University, Department of Economics, Chicago, USA
Abstract
Recent commodity price declines have added to worldwide macroeconomic risk, which has had serious effects on both commodity exporters and manufacturers that use oil and raw materials. These effects have been keenly felt in Central and Eastern Europe—particularly in Russia, but also in European Union member states. This study tests for spillovers among commodity-price and macroeconomic volatility by applying a VAR(1)-MGARCH model to monthly time series for eight CEE countries. Overall, we find that oil prices do indeed have effects throughout the region, as do spillovers among exchange rates, inflation, interest rates, and output, but that they differ from country to country—particularly when different degrees of transition and integration are considered. While oil prices have a limited impact on the currencies
of Russia and Ukraine, they do make a much larger contribution to the two countries’ macroeconomic volatility than do spillovers among the other macroeconomic variables.
Keywords
Oil Prices; Volatility; Multivariate GARCH; Spillovers; Central/Eastern Europe
Hrčak ID:
148332
URI
Publication date:
16.11.2015.
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