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Does the substitution effect lead to feedback effect linkage between ethanol, crude oil, and soft agricultural commodities?

Kumar, Pawan, Singh, Vipul Kumar and Rao, Sandeep orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7752-4492 (2023) Does the substitution effect lead to feedback effect linkage between ethanol, crude oil, and soft agricultural commodities? Energy Economics, 119 . ISSN 0140-9883

Abstract
Despite increased demand for cleaner fuel alternatives such as ethanol in recent decades, portfolio weight allocation has become challenging due to the complex interlinkage amongst crude, ethanol and soft agricultural commodities that form part of the value chain. As a result, portfolio returns face three trade-offs in terms of risk: dispersion across mean, risk arising due to market interconnectedness, and risk arising due to global shocks for assets sharing common macroeconomic fundamentals. This study proposes an optimal weight allocation portfolio strategy, encapsulating the three risk measures and returns, estimated using state-of-the-art multi-objective elitist Non-Dominated Sorting Algorithm II (NSGA-II). Our proposed strategy performs well for newly constituted objectives against the Markowitz Mean-Variance approach and Global Minimum Variance. A balanced diversification escapes the feedback spillover loop trap at the same time. Our results indicate that soybean oil, sugar, and rice offer a better reward to risk, aiding portfolio immunisation to extreme market movements. Furthermore, using GJR-GARCH volatility to capture the volatility asymmetry effect, the Generalized Forecast Variance Decomposition (GFVED) shows the existence of a strong triplet pair Crude-Ethanol-Soybean as a breeding ground for the feedback effect to occur. Moreover, replacing crude weight with ethanol depicts a fall in spillover risk up to a threshold of 30% Ethanol weight, after which the feedback effect kicks in.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Additional Information:Article number: 106574
Uncontrolled Keywords:Crude Oil; Ethanol; Systemic Risk; COVOL; Feedback Effect
Subjects:Business > Economics
Business > Finance
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School
Publisher:Elsevier
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106574
Copyright Information:© 2023 Elsevier
ID Code:28096
Deposited On:22 Mar 2023 13:25 by Sandeep Keshava Rao . Last Modified 22 Mar 2023 13:25
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