The Dynamic Linkages between Crude Oil and Natural Gas Markets

32 Pages Posted: 2 Sep 2015

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Jonathan A. Batten

RMIT University

Cetin Ciner

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Brian M. Lucey

Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin; Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics; Abu Dhabi University - College of Business Administration; Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance

Date Written: August 31, 2015

Abstract

The time varying price spillovers between natural gas and crude oil markets for the period 1994 to 2014 are investigated. Contrary to earlier research, we show that in a large part of our sample the natural gas price leads the price of crude oil with price spillover effects lasting up to two weeks. This result is robust to a battery of tests including out-of-sample forecasting exercises. However, after 2006, we detect little price dependencies between these two energy commodities. This appears due to a conjunction of both demand and supply-side shocks arising from both natural and economic events, including Hurricane Katrina and the Global Financial Crisis, as well as the increased use of new technologies such as hydraulic fracking for the extraction of gas and oil. In effect the long term relation present in the early part of the sample has decoupled such that price determination of these two energy sources are now independent.

Keywords: oil, gas, asymmetric, causality, out-of-sample

JEL Classification: N5, G12

Suggested Citation

Batten, Jonathan A. and Ciner, Cetin and Lucey, Brian M., The Dynamic Linkages between Crude Oil and Natural Gas Markets (August 31, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2653718 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2653718

Jonathan A. Batten

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Cetin Ciner

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