Are Gold and Government Bond Safe-Haven Assets? An Extremal Quantile Regression Analysis

Liu，Wei han

2020-06-01

10.1111/irfi.12232

International Review of Finance   影响因子和分区

1369-412X

1468-2443

This study reexamines gold and government bonds as potential safe-haven assets (SHAs) during market turmoil from daily data in 16 international markets over the past 20 years. We apply the extremal quantile regression model by Chernozhukov and Chernozhukov and Fernandez-Val for empirical investigation. The outcomes indicate that a government bond is more likely to be qualified an active SHA, which can increase in value during market turmoil. Gold can be generally evaluated as a passive SHA, which is uncorrelated with market slumps. However, at the extremal 0.001 quantile level, neither asset can be qualified as a SHA. Since both assets exhibit a similar number of cases of being qualified as SHAs, we cannot significantly differentiate the “flight-to-liquidity” and “flight-to-quality” hypotheses. In terms of market selection, United States and Singapore are the top two choices while France and Hungary are the least commended markets to invest their local gold market as SHA.

SSCI

英语

第一

Business & Economics

Business, Finance

WOS:000536609900006

WILEY

2-s2.0-85054171203

Scopus

School of Business,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,China

Liu，Wei han. Are Gold and Government Bond Safe-Haven Assets? An Extremal Quantile Regression Analysis[J]. International Review of Finance,2020,20(2):451-483.

Liu，Wei han.(2020).Are Gold and Government Bond Safe-Haven Assets? An Extremal Quantile Regression Analysis.International Review of Finance,20(2),451-483.

Liu，Wei han."Are Gold and Government Bond Safe-Haven Assets? An Extremal Quantile Regression Analysis".International Review of Finance 20.2(2020):451-483.