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Safe flight to which haven when Russia invades Ukraine? a 48-hour story

Mohamad, Azhar (2022) Safe flight to which haven when Russia invades Ukraine? a 48-hour story. Economics Letters, 216. ISSN 0165-1765

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Abstract

We examine the flight-to-safety phenomenon from ruble (risky asset) to other safe-haven assets at the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. We find evidence of flight-to-safe-haven occurrences from the ruble to the USD, yen, silver, Brent, WTI and natural gas as indicated by negative dynamic conditional correlations between these assets. Price discovery surrounding the invasion is found to be dominated by Brent and bitcoin. Further, we observe the presence of herding behaviours between energy commodities (Brent, WTI, gasoline and natural gas) and cryptocurrencies (bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin).

Item Type: Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Flight-to-safety; Safe haven; Ruble; Bitcoin; Price discovery; Herding.
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HG Finance > HG221 Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency/Block Chain
H Social Sciences > HG Finance > HG3810 Foreign exchange
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences > Department of Finance
Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences
Depositing User: Dr Azhar Mohamad
Date Deposited: 17 May 2022 10:17
Last Modified: 17 May 2022 11:29
URI: http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/97903

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