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Hedges and safe havens: An examination of stocks, bonds, gold, oil and exchange rates

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The authors investigated the return relations between major asset classes using data from both the US and the UK and found that gold can be regarded as a safe haven against exchange rates in both countries, highlighting its monetary asset role.
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This article is published in International Review of Financial Analysis.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 452 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Asset allocation & Asset (economics).

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A study of excess volatility of gold and silver

TL;DR: In this article, the case of strong path dependency in asset prices from the theoretical and empirical standpoints is discussed, which demonstrates persistence of excess volatility in the gold spot price data that engenders excessive path dependence, whereas it is not the same with silver.
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Modeling the relationships among gold price, oil price, foreign exchange, and the stock market index in Thailand

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship among the price variables in the Thailand stock market, the foreign exchange market, international gold market, and the crude oil market and found that a significant long-run relationship exists among price variables, so that each asset class acts as a hedge against each other.
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Can gold hedge the risk of fear sentiments?

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the interaction between fear sentiments and gold price by utilizing the full-sample and sub-sample rolling-window bootstrap causality tests and found that the increase in fear sentiments can promote the rise in gold prices.
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Spillover effects between commodity and stock markets: A SDSES approach

TL;DR: In this article , a state-dependent sensitivity expected shortfall (SDSES) approach using expectiles was used to quantify the direction, size, and persistence of risk spillovers among the US and emerging market stock indices and different individual commodities as a function of the state of financial markets.

Monetary and fiscal policies variables interaction with stock returns in malaysia

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of monetary and fiscal policy shocks is examined through a structural VAR model in Malaysia, and the results of the study suggest that oil prices influenced positively to stock returns while gold is used as hedge against the stocks.
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Prospect theory: an analysis of decision under risk

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Asymmetric Dynamics in the Correlations of Global Equity and Bond Returns

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Is Gold a Hedge or a Safe Haven? An Analysis of Stocks, Bonds and Gold

TL;DR: In this article, constant and time-varying relations between U.S., U.K. and German stock and bond returns and gold returns were investigated to investigate gold as a hedge and a safe haven.
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