Essays about: "oil stock"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 83 essays containing the words oil stock.

  1. 16. The relationship between crude oil prices and stock markets in Sweden and Norway

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Petter Hälldahl; Mohammad Refaet Rahman; [2020]
    Keywords : oil price; stock market; exchange rate; financial markets;

    Abstract : In this study, the authors examined the relationship between crude oil price and the Swedish and Norwegian stock markets. Using linear regression models the authors found that the Swedish stock market and Norwegian stock market both have a positive relation with crude oil price. READ MORE

  3. 17. Can Good Institutions Avert the Resource Curse?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Jonatan Schubeis; [2020]
    Keywords : Capital stock; Dutch disease; Natural resource curse; Petroleum; Synthetic control method;

    Abstract : To establish the economic impact of petroleum in the UK, this paper uses the synthetic control method. By constructing an artificial UK economy without oil, from the donor pool of OECD economies, it establishes the counterfactual time path of capital stock the UK would have had if it lacked the petroleum endowment. READ MORE

  4. 18. Do changes in macroeconomic variables affect stock market volatility? : -A GARCH-S approach in examining the volatility of the Swedish stock market

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Emelie Wallin; [2020]
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    Abstract : The behaviour of stock markets is characterized by volatility, that is the rate at which stock prices moves up and down within a short period of time. The importance of understanding the nature of volatility is that excessive volatility may prevent the smooth functioning of financial markets and adversely affect the performance of the economy. READ MORE

  5. 19. Risk Spillovers between BRICS Stock Markets, US Stock Market, Gold and Oil: A portfolio management approach

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Sofia Fors; Carl Billing; [2020]
    Keywords : BRICS; DCC-GJR-GARCH; risk spillovers; financial contagion; portfolio selection; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This study investigates the correlation between the US stock market, oil prices, gold prices and the stock markets of five emerging markets: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), in order to explore the risk spillovers and the financial contagion between the markets. A DCC-GJR-GARCH model is applied to daily data of returns from January 2000 to April 2020 and considers both a full sample analysis along with a three-pronged subsample analysis. READ MORE

  6. 20. Mahan in a New Millennium

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Peter Thomsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Seapower; naval strategy; maritime strategy; Mahan; event study;

    Abstract : In 1890, the American naval officer and scholar Alfred Thayer Mahan formulated as a theory that seapower brings prosperity. This thesis in War Science tests whether Mahan’s theory remains valid in the modern day. A multi-disciplinary approach is taken, wherein a financial event study method is employed for hypothesis testing. READ MORE