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Crude oil and stock markets in the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from oil exporters and importers (2021)
Journal Article
Heinlein, R., Legrenzi, G., & Mahadeo, S. (2021). Crude oil and stock markets in the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from oil exporters and importers. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 82, 223-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2021.09.007

Financial assets tend to immediately react to the developments of a global crisis. We investigate how the relationship between crude oil and stock market returns for a heterogeneous selection of oil exporters and importers has been affected in the on... Read More about Crude oil and stock markets in the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from oil exporters and importers.

Do financial markets respond to macroeconomic surprises? Evidence from the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Heinlein, R., & Lepori, G. M. (2022). Do financial markets respond to macroeconomic surprises? Evidence from the UK. Empirical Economics, 62, 2329–2371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-021-02108-1

We investigate the response of UK asset prices to a large set of domestic scheduled macroeconomic announcements using data at a daily frequency from 1998 to 2017. Our results are mostly consistent with economic theory and follow two general patterns:... Read More about Do financial markets respond to macroeconomic surprises? Evidence from the UK.