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Is gold a safe haven? The international evidence revisited

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  • Levent Bulut

    (Department of Economics and Finance, Harley Langdale, Jr. College of Business Administration, Valdosta State University, GA 31698, USA)

  • Islam Rizvanoghlu

    (Department of Economics, University of Houston, TX, USA)

Abstract

The literature has not settled down on safe haven property of gold in the emerging and developing countries. Therefore, we revisit the international evidence on hedging and safe haven role of gold for 34 emerging and developing countries with a span of daily data covering January 2000–November 2018. We employ the GARCH-copula approach to estimate the lower-tail extreme dependencies of the joint distribution of gold and equity returns. We also introduce a new definition for the strong safe haven property of an asset. Our findings indicate that while gold serves as a hedging instrument for all countries in our sample, we got evidence of weak safe haven property for gold, for domestic investors, only in 20 countries, and a strong safe haven asset (SHA) only in 9 countries.

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  • Levent Bulut & Islam Rizvanoghlu, 2020. "Is gold a safe haven? The international evidence revisited," Acta Oeconomica, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 70(4), pages 531-549, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:aoecon:v:70:y:2020:i:4:p:531-549
    DOI: 10.1556/032.2020.00035
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    1. Rui Manuel Dias & Mariana Chambino & Nuno Teixeira & Paulo Alexandre & Paula Heliodoro, 2023. "Balancing Portfolios with Metals: A Safe Haven for Green Energy Investors?," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(20), pages 1-21, October.
    2. Awatef Ourir & Elie Bouri & Essahbi Essaadi, 2023. "Hedging the Risks of MENA Stock Markets with Gold: Evidence from the Spectral Approach," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 61(1), pages 197-231, January.

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    Keywords

    gold; emerging markets; copula; tail dependence; safe haven;
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    JEL classification:

    • C58 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Financial Econometrics
    • F30 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - General
    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets

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