Oil Prices and GCC Stock Markets : New Evidence from Smooth Transition Models /

Our paper examines the effect of oil price changes on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets using nonlinear smooth transition regression (STR) models. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our empirical results reveal that GCC stock markets do not have similar sensitivities to oil price changes. W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine
Other Authors: Ben Naceur, Sami, Kanaan, Oussama, Rault, Christophe
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/098
Online Access:Full text available on IMF