The extreme-value dependence between the crude oil price and Chinese stock markets

Article history: Received 17 August 2014 Received in revised form 16 February 2015 Accepted 30 March 2015 Available online 17 April 2015 This paper examines the asymptotic dependence between the Chinese stock market and the world crude oil market based on the Extreme Value Theory (EVT) and finds a positive extremal dependence. We explain this positive dependence in terms of economic cycles due to the comovement between the Chinese stock market, the world oil market and the global economic cycle. EVT satisfactorily captures the Chinese special oil price adjustment mechanism. We also examine the contagion effect and find that the dependence level tends to increase dramatically during the crisis period but that the simultaneous booms between these two markets decrease considerably after the crisis. © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: C58 G12 G15