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Cross-quantilogram-based correlation and dependence between renewable energy stock and other asset classes

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  1. Avik Sinha & Arshian Sharif & Arnab Adhikari & Ankit Sharma, 2022. "Dependence structure between Indian financial market and energy commodities: a cross-quantilogram based evidence," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 313(1), pages 257-287, June.
  2. Urom, Christian & Mzoughi, Hela & Ndubuisi, Gideon & Guesmi, Khaled, 2022. "Directional predictability and time-frequency spillovers among clean energy sectors and oil price uncertainty," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 326-341.
  3. Dutta, Anupam & Bouri, Elie & Rothovius, Timo & Uddin, Gazi Salah, 2023. "Climate risk and green investments: New evidence," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 265(C).
  4. Tanin, Tauhidul Islam & Hasanov, Akram Shavkatovich & Shaiban, Mohammed Sharaf Mohsen & Brooks, Robert, 2022. "Risk transmission from the oil market to Islamic and conventional banks in oil-exporting and oil-importing countries," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
  5. Bouri, Elie & Kachacha, Imad & Roubaud, David, 2020. "Oil market conditions and sovereign risk in MENA oil exporters and importers," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
  6. Sohag, Kazi & Sokolova, Yulia & Vilamová, Šárka & Blueschke, Dmitri, 2023. "Volatility transmission from critical minerals prices to green investments," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
  7. Tiwari, Aviral Kumar & Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel & Doğan, Buhari & Adekoya, Oluwasegun B. & Wohar, Mark, 2024. "Asymmetric spillover effects in energy markets," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 92(C), pages 470-502.
  8. Mzoughi, Hela & Urom, Christian & Guesmi, Khaled, 2022. "Downside and upside risk spillovers between green finance and energy markets," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 47(PA).
  9. Rubbaniy, Ghulame & Khalid, Ali Awais & Syriopoulos, Konstantinos & Samitas, Aristeidis, 2022. "Safe-haven properties of soft commodities during times of Covid-19," Journal of Commodity Markets, Elsevier, vol. 27(C).
  10. Baumöhl, Eduard & Bouri, Elie & Hoang, Thi-Hong-Van & Shahzad, Syed Jawad Hussain & Výrost, Tomáš, 2020. "Increasing systemic risk during the Covid-19 pandemic: A cross-quantilogram analysis of the banking sector," EconStor Preprints 222580, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
  11. Cao, Guangxi & Xie, Fei, 2023. "The asymmetric impact of crude oil futures on the clean energy stock market: Based on the asymmetric variable coefficient quantile regression model," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
  12. Chandrarin, Grahita & Sohag, Kazi & Cahyaningsih, Diyah Sukanti & Yuniawan, Dani & Herdhayinta, Heyvon, 2022. "The response of exchange rate to coal price, palm oil price, and inflation in Indonesia: Tail dependence analysis," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
  13. Andrieş, Alin Marius & Ongena, Steven & Sprincean, Nicu & Tunaru, Radu, 2022. "Risk spillovers and interconnectedness between systemically important institutions," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).
  14. Shah, Muhammad Ibrahim & Foglia, Matteo & Shahzad, Umer & Fareed, Zeeshan, 2022. "Green innovation, resource price and carbon emissions during the COVID-19 times: New findings from wavelet local multiple correlation analysis," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 184(C).
  15. Yahya, Muhammad & Ghosh, Sajal & Kanjilal, Kakali & Dutta, Anupam & Uddin, Gazi Salah, 2020. "Evaluation of cross-quantile dependence and causality between non-ferrous metals and clean energy indexes," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 202(C).
  16. Christos Floros & Georgios Galyfianakis, 2020. "Bubbles in Crude Oil and Commodity Energy Index: New Evidence," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-11, December.
  17. Naeem, Muhammad Abubakr & Sadorsky, Perry & Karim, Sitara, 2023. "Sailing across climate-friendly bonds and clean energy stocks: An asymmetric analysis with the Gulf Cooperation Council Stock markets," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
  18. Alqahtani, Abdullah & Selmi, Refk & Hongbing, Ouyang, 2021. "The financial impacts of jump processes in the crude oil price: Evidence from G20 countries in the pre- and post-COVID-19," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
  19. Ahmed, Walid M.A. & Sleem, Mohamed A.E., 2023. "Short- and long-run determinants of the price behavior of US clean energy stocks: A dynamic ARDL simulations approach," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
  20. Urom, Christian & Mzoughi, Hela & Abid, Ilyes & Brahim, Mariem, 2021. "Green markets integration in different time scales: A regional analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
  21. Tiwari, Aviral Kumar & Trabelsi, Nader & Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins & Nasreen, Samia & Lee, Chien-Chiang, 2023. "An empirical analysis of the dynamic relationship between clean and dirty energy markets," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
  22. Bouteska, Ahmed & Ha, Le Thanh & Bhuiyan, Faruk & Sharif, Taimur & Abedin, Mohammad Zoynul, 2024. "Contagion between investor sentiment and green bonds in China during the global uncertainties," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 93(PA), pages 469-484.
  23. Chen, Jinyu & Liang, Zhipeng & Ding, Qian & Liu, Zhenhua, 2022. "Quantile connectedness between energy, metal, and carbon markets," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
  24. Zhang, Jiahao & Chen, Xiaodan & Wei, Yu & Bai, Lan, 2023. "Does the connectedness among fossil energy returns matter for renewable energy stock returns? Fresh insights from the Cross-Quantilogram analysis," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
  25. Dutta, Anupam & Dutta, Probal, 2022. "Geopolitical risk and renewable energy asset prices: Implications for sustainable development," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 196(C), pages 518-525.
  26. Tiantian Liu & Shigeyuki Hamori, 2021. "Does Investor Sentiment Affect Clean Energy Stock? Evidence from TVP-VAR-Based Connectedness Approach," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-21, June.
  27. Samir Cedic & Alwan Mahmoud & Matteo Manera & Gazi Salah Uddin, 2021. "Information Diffusion and Spillover Dynamics in Renewable Energy Markets," Working Papers 2021.10, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
  28. Inzamam Ul Haq & Paulo Ferreira & Apichit Maneengam & Worakamol Wisetsri, 2022. "Rare Earth Market, Electric Vehicles and Future Mobility Index: A Time-Frequency Analysis with Portfolio Implications," Risks, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-20, July.
  29. Patel, Ritesh & Gubareva, Mariya & Chishti, Muhammad Zubair, 2024. "Assessing the connectedness between cryptocurrency environment attention index and green cryptos, energy cryptos, and green financial assets," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 70(PA).
  30. Shahzad, Syed Jawad Hussain & Rahman, Md Lutfur & Lucey, Brian M. & Uddin, Gazi Salah, 2021. "Re-examining the real option characteristics of gold for gold mining companies," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
  31. Husain, Shaiara & Sohag, Kazi & Wu, Yanrui, 2022. "The response of green energy and technology investment to climate policy uncertainty: An application of twin transitions strategy," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
  32. Sadorsky, Perry, 2022. "Forecasting solar stock prices using tree-based machine learning classification: How important are silver prices?," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 61(C).
  33. Jing Deng & Jingxuan Lu & Yujie Zheng & Xiaoyun Xing & Cheng Liu & Tao Qin, 2022. "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Connectedness between Green Industries and Financial Markets in China: Evidence from Time-Frequency Domain with Portfolio Implications," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-24, October.
  34. Linh Pham, 2021. "How Integrated are Regional Green Equity Markets? Evidence from a Cross-Quantilogram Approach," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(1), pages 1-58, January.
  35. Fahmy, Hany, 2022. "The rise in investors’ awareness of climate risks after the Paris Agreement and the clean energy-oil-technology prices nexus," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 106(C).
  36. Samir Cedic & Alwan Mahmoud & Matteo Manera & Gazi Salah Uddin, 2021. "Uncertainty and Stock Returns in Energy Markets: A Quantile Regression Approach," Working Papers 2021.11, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
  37. Naeem, Muhammad Abubakr & Pham, Linh & Senthilkumar, Arunachalam & Karim, Sitara, 2022. "Oil shocks and BRIC markets: Evidence from extreme quantile approach," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
  38. Yang, Xiaoming & Islam, Md. Monirul & Mentel, Grzegorz & Ahmad, Ashfaq & Vasa, László, 2024. "Synergistic dynamics unveiled: Interplay between rare earth prices, clean energy innovations, and tech companies' market resilience amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
  39. He, Xiaojuan & Mishra, Shekhar & Aman, Ameenullah & Shahbaz, Muhammad & Razzaq, Asif & Sharif, Arshian, 2021. "The linkage between clean energy stocks and the fluctuations in oil price and financial stress in the US and Europe? Evidence from QARDL approach," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
  40. Yousaf, Imran & Nekhili, Ramzi & Umar, Muhammad, 2022. "Extreme connectedness between renewable energy tokens and fossil fuel markets," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
  41. Tiwari, Aviral Kumar & Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel & Adekoya, Oluwasegun B. & Hammoudeh, Shawkat, 2023. "What do we know about the price spillover between green bonds and Islamic stocks and stock market indices?," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 55(C).
  42. Kumar, Satish & Khalfaoui, Rabeh & Tiwari, Aviral Kumar, 2021. "Does geopolitical risk improve the directional predictability from oil to stock returns? Evidence from oil-exporting and oil-importing countries," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
  43. Pedini, Luca & Severini, Sabrina, 2022. "Exploring the hedge, diversifier and safe haven properties of ESG investments: A cross-quantilogram analysis," MPRA Paper 112339, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  44. Tiantian Liu & Shigeyuki Hamori, 2020. "Spillovers to Renewable Energy Stocks in the US and Europe: Are They Different?," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-28, June.
  45. Dragos HURU & Ioana MANAFI & Ionut PANDELICA & Marilena Carmen UZLAU, 2022. "Nonlinear Dependencies between Green Bonds and General Financial Market Indices," Journal for Economic Forecasting, Institute for Economic Forecasting, vol. 0(4), pages 169-181, December.
  46. Rui Dias & Nicole Horta & Mariana Chambino, 2023. "Clean Energy Action Index Efficiency: An Analysis in Global Uncertainty Contexts," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(9), pages 1-18, May.
  47. Kamal, Javed Bin & Wohar, Mark & Kamal, Khaled Bin, 2022. "Do gold, oil, equities, and currencies hedge economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risks during covid crisis?," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
  48. Sinha, Avik & Ghosh, Vinit & Hussain, Nazim & Nguyen, Duc Khuong & Das, Narasingha, 2023. "Green financing of renewable energy generation: Capturing the role of exogenous moderation for ensuring sustainable development," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
  49. Pham, Linh, 2021. "Frequency connectedness and cross-quantile dependence between green bond and green equity markets," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
  50. Sinha, Avik & Tiwari, Sunil & Saha, Tanaya, 2024. "Modeling the behavior of renewable energy market: Understanding the moderation of climate risk factors," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 130(C).
  51. Aviral Kumar Tiwari & Muhammad Shahbaz & Rabeh Khalfaoui & Rizwan Ahmed & Shawkat Hammoudeh, 2024. "Directional predictability from energy markets to exchange rates and stock markets in the emerging market countries (E7 + 1): New evidence from cross‐quantilogram approach," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(1), pages 719-789, January.
  52. Fu, Zheng & Chen, Zhiguo & Sharif, Arshian & Razi, Ummara, 2022. "The role of financial stress, oil, gold and natural gas prices on clean energy stocks: Global evidence from extreme quantile approach," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
  53. Shahzad, Umer & Ghaemi Asl, Mahdi & Khalfaoui, Rabeh & Tedeschi, Marco, 2024. "Extreme contributions of conventional investments vis-à-vis Islamic ones to renewables," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 189(PB).
  54. Qi, Shaozhou & Pang, Lidong & Qi, Tianbai & Zhang, Xiaoling & Pirtea, Marilen Gabriel, 2024. "The correlation between the green bond market and carbon trading markets under climate change: Evidence from China," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 203(C).
  55. Selmi, Refk & Hammoudeh, Shawkat & Kasmaoui, Kamal & Sousa, Ricardo M. & Errami, Youssef, 2022. "The dual shocks of the COVID-19 and the oil price collapse: A spark or a setback for the circular economy?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
  56. Yahya, Muhammad & Kanjilal, Kakali & Dutta, Anupam & Uddin, Gazi Salah & Ghosh, Sajal, 2021. "Can clean energy stock price rule oil price? New evidences from a regime-switching model at first and second moments," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
  57. Jiang, Yonghong & Wang, Jieru & Ao, Zhiming & Wang, Yujou, 2022. "The relationship between green bonds and conventional financial markets: Evidence from quantile-on-quantile and quantile coherence approaches," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
  58. Dongming Jiang & Fang Jia, 2022. "Extreme Spillover between Green Bonds and Clean Energy Markets," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-15, May.
  59. Liu, Yang & Blankenburg, Martin & Wang, Mei, 2023. "Earnings expectations of grey and green energy firms: Analysis against the background of global climate change mitigation," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
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