Analysing the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Asset Prices: Evidence from UK Firms

This study examines the responses of some of the UK transportation, travel and leisure, and oil and gas firms to oil price changes. Fama-French-Carhart's (1997) four-factor asset pricing model is augmented with the oil price risk factor to study the association of oil and stock prices of 25 fir...

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Main Author: Fatema Alaali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EconJournals 2017-12-01
Series:International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues
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spelling doaj-73471173f1c447a58a6c2369f89e62822020-11-25T02:10:40ZengEconJournalsInternational Journal of Economics and Financial Issues2146-41382017-12-01744184321032Analysing the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Asset Prices: Evidence from UK FirmsFatema AlaaliThis study examines the responses of some of the UK transportation, travel and leisure, and oil and gas firms to oil price changes. Fama-French-Carhart's (1997) four-factor asset pricing model is augmented with the oil price risk factor to study the association of oil and stock prices of 25 firms over the period from January 1998 to December 2012. The extent of the exposure of UK firms to oil price changes is heterogeneous, asymmetric and differs according to the economic situation. These results should be of interest to financial analysts, corporate executives, regulators and policy makers.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijefi/issue/32006/353573?publisher=http-www-cag-edu-tr-ilhan-ozturkoil price stock returns asset pricing
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Analysing the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Asset Prices: Evidence from UK Firms
International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues
oil price
stock returns
asset pricing
author_facet Fatema Alaali
author_sort Fatema Alaali
title Analysing the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Asset Prices: Evidence from UK Firms
title_short Analysing the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Asset Prices: Evidence from UK Firms
title_full Analysing the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Asset Prices: Evidence from UK Firms
title_fullStr Analysing the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Asset Prices: Evidence from UK Firms
title_full_unstemmed Analysing the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Asset Prices: Evidence from UK Firms
title_sort analysing the effect of oil price shocks on asset prices: evidence from uk firms
publisher EconJournals
series International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues
issn 2146-4138
publishDate 2017-12-01
description This study examines the responses of some of the UK transportation, travel and leisure, and oil and gas firms to oil price changes. Fama-French-Carhart's (1997) four-factor asset pricing model is augmented with the oil price risk factor to study the association of oil and stock prices of 25 firms over the period from January 1998 to December 2012. The extent of the exposure of UK firms to oil price changes is heterogeneous, asymmetric and differs according to the economic situation. These results should be of interest to financial analysts, corporate executives, regulators and policy makers.
topic oil price
stock returns
asset pricing
url https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijefi/issue/32006/353573?publisher=http-www-cag-edu-tr-ilhan-ozturk
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