Corporate Debt and Stock Returns Evidence from U.S. Firms during the 2020 Oil Crash

This paper explores the effect of oil price fluctuations on the stock returns of U.S. oil firms using an identification strategy through heteroskedasticity, exploiting the 2020 oil price crash. The results are twofold. First, a decline in oil prices significantly reduces oil firms' stock return...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arezki, Rabah
Other Authors: Pham, Anh, Cho, Caleb, Nguyen, Ha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2022
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 01874nmm a2200409 u 4500
001 EB002178233
003 EBX01000000000000001315767
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 231006 ||| eng
100 1 |a Arezki, Rabah 
245 0 0 |a Corporate Debt and Stock Returns  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b Evidence from U.S. Firms during the 2020 Oil Crash  |c Rabah Arezki 
260 |a Washington, D.C  |b The World Bank  |c 2022 
300 |a 24 pages 
653 |a Energy Policies and Economics 
653 |a Oil Markets 
653 |a Oil Firms Stock Returns 
653 |a Energy 
653 |a Oil Stocks 
653 |a Oil Company Debt 
653 |a Corporate Debt 
653 |a Private Sector Economics 
653 |a Oil Price Fluctuation 
653 |a Energy Markets 
653 |a Oil and Gas 
653 |a Volatility 
653 |a Private Sector Development 
653 |a Corporate Governance 
700 1 |a Pham, Anh 
700 1 |a Cho, Caleb 
700 1 |a Nguyen, Ha 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b WOBA  |a World Bank E-Library Archive 
028 5 0 |a 10.1596/1813-9450-10079 
856 4 0 |u http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-10079  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a This paper explores the effect of oil price fluctuations on the stock returns of U.S. oil firms using an identification strategy through heteroskedasticity, exploiting the 2020 oil price crash. The results are twofold. First, a decline in oil prices significantly reduces oil firms' stock returns. On average, a 1 percent decline in oil prices leads to a 0.44 percent decline in stock prices. Second, firm debt appears irrelevant in mediating the effect of oil prices on oil firms' stock returns. Moreover, the muted role of debt was not likely caused by the liquidity backstop provided by the Federal Reserve