ABSTRACT
Due to the close production link between clean energy and non-ferrous metals, their price and market dynamics can easily affect one another through production costs. Furthermore, with the increased financialization of clean energy and non-ferrous metals markets, investment risk can easily spread between them. Therefore, this paper intends to explore the risk contagion between the two markets through the spillover index model and the minimum spanning tree (MST) method. Employing the data collected in China, this paper quantifies the magnitude of risk transfer by the volatility spillovers of eight clean energy stock markets as identified in The Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Clean Industry Statistical Classification 2021 and the eight corresponding non-ferrous metals futures markets, while fully considering the heterogeneity between sub-markets. First, we find that risk is mainly transmitted from clean energy to non-ferrous metals. Second, this paper identifies not only the most influential market but also the shortest path of risk contagion based on the MST topology analysis. Last, the empirical results show that the COVID-19 has increased the scale of risk transmission between the two markets and their connectivity. During the COVID-19 period, the shortest path between the two markets shifted from "hydropower–gold” to "smart grid–zinc”, and the systematically influential markets correspondingly become smart grid and zinc. The results obtained in this paper might have practical implications for policymakers seeking to achieve effective risk management, which could also facilitate investors for diversification benefits. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd
ABSTRACT
This paper analyses the dynamic comovement and extreme risk spillovers between international crude oil and China's non-ferrous metals futures by combining the application of Copula and CoVaR models, considering the effects of structural breaks and the frequency of cycles. The results show a positive linkage between crude oil and China's non-ferrous metals, with significant long-period comovement. Upside risk in crude oil prices can generate stronger extreme shocks to non-ferrous metals, as evidenced by the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. Compared to zinc and aluminum, copper is more susceptible to risk spillovers from crude oil, particularly in the event of a downside trend in crude oil. In addition, WTI crude oil and Brent crude oil show some variability in the upper and lower tail spillover effects. Our research explained to some extent the time-varying, cyclical and asymmetric impact on the non-ferrous metal futures market under crude oil shocks, which can be informative for industry planners, regulators, and investors in making targeted decisions. It is mainly the case when dealing with the many effects of geopolitical conflicts, trade frictions, and commodity supply and demand mismatches.