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JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE
Volume 60, Issue -, Pages 93-111Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2015.07.008
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Financialization; Commodities; Risk spillovers; Style investing; State-dependent sensitivity VaR
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In this paper, we show that large inflows into commodity investments, a recent phenomenon known as financialization, has changed the behavior and dependence structure between commodities and the general stock market. The common perception is that the increase in comovements is the result of distressed investors selling both assets during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. We show that financial distress alone cannot explain the size and persistence of comovements. Instead, we argue that commodities have become an investment style for institutional investors. Given that institutional investors continue to target funds into commodities, we predict spillovers between commodities and the stock market to remain high in the future. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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