In existing literature, economic uncertainty may have positive, negative, or insignificant effect on crude oil prices. Based on our newly proposed two-stage tests and empirical analysis, we show that such disagreement is often caused by the conventional assumption on time-invariant market...

We propose a novel framework to analyze the potentially heterogeneous roles played by different market participants in the fire-sale process during market crash and illustrate the methodology with the 2015–16 Chinese stock market turbulence. Unlike conventional analysis focusing on one...