How do Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Stocks co-move with traditional and alternative assets in the age of the 4th industrial revolution? Implications and Insights for the COVID-19 period
•We explore the interlinkages between AI & Robotics stocks and other assets.•We find substantially increased interlinkages in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.•Government securities may exhibit safe haven asset properties at certain scales.•COVID-19 has certainly changed the dependence dynamics...
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Published in | Technological forecasting & social change Vol. 171; p. 120989 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York
Elsevier Inc
01.10.2021
Elsevier Science Ltd |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | •We explore the interlinkages between AI & Robotics stocks and other assets.•We find substantially increased interlinkages in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.•Government securities may exhibit safe haven asset properties at certain scales.•COVID-19 has certainly changed the dependence dynamics.
This study investigates the interdependence between AI & Robotics stocks and traditional (including stocks and bonds) and alternative (commodities and cryptocurrencies) assets, employing wavelet coherence analysis in time-frequency space. We further provide a fresh perspective on potential hedging and diversification benefits of AI & Robotics stocks. Overall, our results suggest that co-movements between AI & Robotics stocks and other assets significantly depend on the wavelet decomposition levels, suggesting time-scale-dependent investment benefits. Wavelet coherences and correlations have substantially increased, mostly in the low frequencies, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Government securities exhibit safe haven properties for investors at the highest and lowest scales. Even if cryptocurrencies can provide hedging benefits over the full sample, these benefits seem to be diminished during the COVID-19 period. We observe substantially higher co-movements of AI stocks with the composite stock index, corporate bonds, and commodities at all scales after March 2020, implying that inclusion of these assets in AI & Robotics stock portfolios may not enhance risk-adjusted portfolio performance in times of market turbulence. These results offer potential implications for investors and portfolio managers in terms of hedging/diversification benefits as well as for authorities and policy makers regarding the development of strategies to mitigate financial risk. |
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ISSN: | 0040-1625 1873-5509 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120989 |