Time Varying News Today

Exploring the connectedness and time-varying attributes of conventional and new energy markets is crucial to the green-oriented transition of energy. This investigation performs bootstrap full-and sub-sample techniques to explore the correlation between the oil and lithium markets, and further probe whether lithium could threaten the status of oil. The empirical outcomes reveal that oil price (OP) exerts positive influences on lithium price (LP). High OP increases the lithium demand and its pric...

Since the start of the pandemic, inflation has re-entered mainstream discussion. This column reviews the analysis of globalisation and inflation conducted in the context of the ECB strategy review. Although global factors (mainly commodity prices) matter for inflation synchronisation, their role in lowering both inflation and its sensitivity to the business cycle in advanced