Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Meng Qin Author-Name: Yu-Chen Zhang Author-Name: Chi-Wei Su Author-Email: contact.apaea@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Asia Pacific Applied Economics Association Title: The Essential Role of Pandemics - A Fresh Insight Into the Oil Market Abstract: This paper probes the interrelationship between pandemics and oil prices. It shows that the pandemics may reduce the oil demand, causing oil prices to decrease, which is inconsistent with the predictions of the intertemporal capital asset pricing model. The implication of this study is that the oil market should not be ignored when analyzing the effect of pandemics Classification-JEL: O Keywords: pandemics, oil price, oil demand Journal: Energy RESEARCH LETTERS Pages: 1-4 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Year: 2021 DOI: 2021/06/16 File-URL: https://erl.scholasticahq.com/api/v1/articles/13166-the-essential-role-of-pandemics-a-fresh-insight-into-the-oil-market.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ayb:jrnerl:27