class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide .title[ # Global liquidity and the profitability of energy firms ] .subtitle[ ## ICEE 2022 - PORTO, PORTUGAL ] .author[ ### Orlando Joaqui-Barandica
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Diego F. Manotas-Duque
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Jorge M. Uribe ] .date[ ### June 2-3, 2022 ] --- class: clear .pull-left[ .center[ <br><br> <img src="img/logos.png" width="75%" /> ] ] .pull-right[ .center[ <img style="border-radius: 50%;" src="img/avatar.png" width="100px" href="https://www.joaquibarandica.com" /> [Orlando Joaqui-Barandica, M.Sc.](https://www.joaquibarandica.com) <br/> Universidad del Valle ] .center[ <img style="border-radius: 50%;" src="img/avatar2.PNG" width="100px" /> [Diego F. Manotas-Duque, Ph.D.](http://industrial.univalle.edu.co/profesores/diego-fernando-manotas-duque) <br> Universidad del Valle ] .center[ <img style="border-radius: 50%;" src="img/avatar3.PNG" width="100px" /> [Jorge M. Uribe, Ph.D.](https://jorgemuribe.com/) <br> Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ] ] ??? • Diapositiva 1 - Saludo Hello, Good morning. Thank you very much for attending my presentation. It is a pleasure to be here and share with you. Today, I'm going to talk about Global liquidity and the profitability of energy firms. In advance, I apologize for my English. • Diapositiva 2 – Autores This research is carried out in conjunction with, Professor Diego Manotas from the Universidad del Valle, and Professor Jorge M. Uribe from the Universidad Oberta de Cataluña. <!-- --- --> <!-- class: contenido --> <!-- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> --> <!-- # Content --> <!-- .pull-left[ --> <!-- </br> --> <!-- ###
[Motivation](#Motivation) --> <!-- ###
[Energy profitability literature](#Literature) --> <!-- ###
[Methodology & Data](#Methodology) --> <!-- ###
[Results](#Results) --> <!-- ###
[Conclusion](#Conclusion) --> <!-- ] --> <!-- .pull.right[ --> <!-- ] --> <!-- ??? --> <!-- • Diapositiva 3 – Contenido --> <!-- This is the content that I will expose today: We will begin with a brief introduction or motivation to the research topic. --> <!-- Secondly, I will present some works consulted on energy profitability. Subsequently, I will present the methodology carried out in the empirical work and, finally, I will show the results and conclusions of the research. --> <!-- --- --> <!--name: Motivation --> <!-- class: inverse, mline, center, middle --> <!-- <div class="my-logo-center"></div> --> <!-- # Motivation --> <!-- ??? --> <!-- Diapo 3: Transición --> <!-- Talking a little about the motivation for this work... we have... --> --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Motivation <br><br> .pull-left[ .font120[ * Understanding the determinants of companies’ profitability is of utmost importance for both, academics and corporate managers. * Different empirical and theoretical studies show that profitability depends on external conditions, industry scope and specific firms’ characteristics `(Wieczorek-Kosmala et al., 2021)` ] ] .pull-right[ .center[ ![](https://media.giphy.com/media/w3IE6RmM6bwrmLFEUb/giphy.gif) .font120[ `External determinants` vs. `Internal determinants` ] ] ] ??? Diapo 3: Motivación Understanding the causes or generation of company profitability is a topic of interest in the academic and business world. Although, different companies may in turn present different causes or events that determine their profitability, depending on the structure of assets, or financial structure or operations or composition of assets. We could mainly identify two foci of the determinants. In the first place, we have the internal determinants, that refers to all characteristics in the company. On the other hand, we have the external determinants, that refers to all characteristics external to the company that cant be controlled by the CEOs or managers but that clearly influence on profitability, or decision-making or management strategies. --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Motivation .left-column[ .left[ ## Profitability... ... is defined as the ability to take advantage of resources to generate profits, therefore, as an indicator of effective management. ] ] .right-column[ ## Idiosyncratic characteristics vs. Common forces .font120[ Identifying the determinants of profitability and anticipating its fluctuations guarantees timely and informed decision-making that maximizes value for the company’s stakeholders. .pull-left[ **Internal determinants** * `Firms’ age` * `Size` * `Financial leverage` * etc. ] .pull-right[ **External determinants** * `Fuel prices` * `Interest rates` * `Exchange rates` * `Economic activity` * etc. ] ] ] ??? Diapo 4: Motivación The importance of profitability lies on its relevance as an indicator of efficient management in terms of utility and benefit for companies. In the case of the energy companies, we found a big difference in their composition and management strategies, mainly by the sources of generation as to oil, wind, water or solar. This generates different strategies to maximize the value of the companies due to their operation. Different authors have identified Internal aspects as firms' age, or size, financial leverage, etc., On the other hand, the external determinants can be fuel prices, interest rates, exchange rates, economic activity, etc. --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Motivation .font180[**Here...**] .right[ <br> .font180[... we analyze the external determinants of the profitability of energy firms, and specifically, the effect of `global liquidity` on the profitability of companies belonging to different energy sub-sectors] ] <hr> <br> .font120[
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Our working hypothesis is that changes of `global interest rates` (and hence of funding liquidity) have important effects on the financial operation of large energy firms. ] ??? Diapo 5: Motivación We focus on analyzing the external determinants. Specifically the global liquidity that we measure from interest rates. Our working hypothesis is that changes in global interest rates have important effects on the financial operation of large energy companies. --- <!-- --- name: Methodology class: inverse, mline, center, middle <div class="my-logo-center"></div> # Methodology & Data #??? Diapo 9: Transición About the methodology and the data, we have: --> <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Methodology .font120[ > 1️⃣ `Global liquidity -> World Interest Rate (WIR)` We extract the first principal component of the interest rates in developed markets. <div style="line-height:5%;"> <br> </div> .pull-left[ > 2️⃣ We estimate `Common factor of profitability` of a sample the energy companies worldwide using FPCA (Functional Principals Components Analyses) according to their energy subsector: .font90[ * Coal * Oil & Gas * Oil & Gas Related Equipment and Services * Renewable Energy * Uranium ] <div style="line-height:5%;"> <br> </div> ] .pull-right[ > 3️⃣ We measure `The effect of global liquidity on profitability` using DLNM (Distributed Lag Nonlinear Model ). <br> .font90[ `$$\begin{equation} g\left(\mu_t\right)=\alpha+\sum_{j=1}^{J}{s_j\left({WIR}_{tj};\beta_j\right)}+\sum_{k=1}^{K}\gamma_ku_{tk} \end{equation} \nonumber$$` ] ] ] ??? Diapo 6: Metodología We have structured 3 methodological stages. First, we construct a common factor from different developed market interest rates. This factor is called the world interest rate and is our indicator of global liquidity. WIR in short form. Second, we estimate a common factor of profitability for firms in each subsector. We do this using Principal Functional Component Analysis. Third, we measure the effect of global liquidity on profitability using the nonlinear distributed lag model. We estimate a smooth response surface (Sj). An advantage of this analysis is to observe the effect through the lags of the predictor variable (WIR). <!-- --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Factor analysis by principal components (PCA) <br> .pull-left[ .font120[ The PCA method comes from `Hotelling (1933)` and gained notoriety in the 1970s and 1980s (e.g., `Jolliffe (1986)`; `Lawley and Maxwell (1971)`). We take the first component as the world interest rate. We estimate `\(WIR_j\)` `\((j = 1,...,p)\)` where each `\(WIR_j\)` is a linear combination of the original variables. In this case, the long and short-term interest rates are given by `\(w_1,w_2,...,w_p\)`, hence: ] ] .pull-right[ .font120[ `$$\begin{align} {WIR}_j & = a_{j1}w_1+ a_{j2}w_2+\ldots + a_{jp}w_p \nonumber \\ & = \mathrm{a}_j^\prime\mathrm{w} \end{align}$$` <br> where `\(\mathrm{a}_j^\prime=(a_{1j}, a_{2j}, \ldots, a_{pj})\)` a vector of constants, and `\(w\)` a vector of global interest rates. `$$\begin{equation}\mathrm{W}= \begin{bmatrix} w_1 \\ \vdots \\ w_p \end{bmatrix}\end{equation}$$` ] ] #??? Diapo 11: Metodología Explaining a little our methodology. The technique used for the construction of WIR is the analysis of principal components, which allows us to generate, through a linear combination, a component that summarizes a large part of the variability of interest rates in the developed markets. --> <!-- --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Functional principals components analysis <br> .font120[ We use sparse functional data methods to reconstruct the whole history of profitability for all firms in the dataset. This can be expressed following `Yao et al. (2005)` like: `$$\begin{equation} X_i\left(t\right)=\mu\left(t\right)+\sum_{k=1}^{\infty\ }{\xi_{ik}\varphi_k\left(t\right)} \end{equation}$$` where `\(\xi_{ik}\)` are functional principal components for `\(X_i\left(t\right)\)` (i.e. underlaying series), and `\(\varphi_1, \varphi_2, \ldots\)` are the corresponding orthonormal eigenfunctions. The entire data set is used to estimate the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions in the following way: `$$\begin{equation} {\hat{\xi}}_{ik}=E[\xi_{ik}|\tilde{\boldsymbol{Y}}_i] = {\hat{\lambda}}_k{\hat{\varphi}}_{ik}^T {\hat{\mathbf{\Sigma}}}_i^{-1}\left({\tilde{{\boldsymbol{Y}}}}_i-{\hat{{\boldsymbol{\mu}}}}_i\right) \end{equation}$$` where `\({\hat{{\Sigma}}}_i=\ {\hat{{G}}}_i+\sigma^2{I}\)`, and `\({\tilde{{Y}}}_i=\left(Y_{i1},\ \ldots,\ Y_{iN_i}\right)^T\)`. ] #??? Diapo 12: Metodología Below, we use Functional Principal Component Analysis due to the characteristics of our profitability data. Here we estimate the functional components for each subsector, where, We assume that the profitability of companies responds to a common underlying process. --> --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Data .panelset[ .panel[.panel-name[Profitability information] >
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Profitability information of energy companies was retrieved from the Refinitiv EIKON database. >
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We use ROA (Return on Assets) <div style="line-height:5%;"> <br> </div>
Sample of firms according to profitability indicator ROA and energy sub-sector.
The period: 2000Q1 to 2021Q2
Sub-sectors
n = 536
(%)
Coal
15
2.7
Oil & Gas
278
51.8
Oil & Gas (Equipment and Services)
177
32.8
Renewable Energy
58
10.7
Uranium
11
2.0
Note: We use Refinitiv Business Classification (TRBC) to assign subsectors to each energy firm in our sample.
] .panel[.panel-name[Global liquidity information] >
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We use interest rate information from developed markets. >
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Short-term and long-term interest rates were extracted from the OECD database <div style="line-height:5%;"> <br> </div>
Developed economies
The period: 2000Q1 to 2021Q2
Australia
Finland
Italy
Portugal
United States
Austria
France
Japan
Spain
Belgium
Germany
Netherlands
Sweden
Canada
Ireland
New Zealand
Switzerland
Denmark
Israel
Norway
United Kingdom
] .panel[.panel-name[Energy firms by country] <br>
] ] ??? Diapo 7: Data Our data on the profitability of energy companies and the macroeconomic interest rate environment come from two different sources. We use ROA, which is Return on Assets, ROA measures the operating efficiency of a company. We have 536 companies, with major participation of Oil and Gas companies. We use short and long-term interest rates for 21 countries of developed economies regarding global liquidity information. Long-term interest rates refer to government bonds maturing in ten years. Short-term interest rates are based on three-month money market rates. Finally, we present the distribution of the companies in our sample. The US and Canada have the largest participation in the sample. This map allows us to visualize our sample around the world. <!-- --- name: Results class: inverse, mline, center, middle <div class="my-logo-center"></div> # Results #??? Diapo 15: Transición Looking at the results... --> --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # World Interest Rate <img src="img/WIR.png" width="100%" /> ??? Diapo 8: Results This figure shows the first component (black line). It explains 82% of the variability in the dataset and captures general market movements. Our series of interest rates as well as our estimated factor are centered. --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Response surface
??? Diapo 9: Results This plot is the main result of the DLNM method. We present the response surface with 3 dimensions. Here, we have the lags, which refer to the time or delay, on this side the WIR which refers to the predictor variable and on this side the Profitability which refers to the response variable. The surface presents all the effects. When the WIR decreases and we have the first lags, the effect on the profitability is high. But, reading these graphs in 3d is usually complex. For this reason, it is better to present contour plots. --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Effect global liquidity on profitability <img src="img/contour.png" width="100%" /> ??? Diapo 10: Results Here we can compare the estimated effect for each subsector. We note that the effect is not symmetric, meaning that the effect when WIR decreases is not the same as when WIR increases (remember... decreases in WIR represent increases in global liquidity). We can identify that the Oil and Gas subsector is the most sensitive in the first lags when the WIR decreases. The subsectors of Coal, Oil & Gas related to equipment and services, and renewables, have similar behavior. In general, we find that declines in the world interest rate (WIR) are associated with higher profitability in all sectors except the uranium subsector. This subsector has negative effects on profitability. <!-- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Cumulative effect <img src="img/efecto_acum.png" width="100%" /> --> <!-- --- name: Conclusion class: inverse, mline, center, middle <div class="my-logo-center"></div> # Conclusions #??? Diapo 19: Transición Now, in the conclusions we have.. --> --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Conclusion .left-column[ .font400[1.] <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> .font400[2.] ] .right-column[ .font120[ > The effect of global liquidity on the profitability of energy companies is asymmetric. <br> <br> <hr> <br> > The profitability of energy companies is affected differently depending on their sub-sector relative to global liquidity. ] ] ??? Diapo 11: Conclusiones The effect of global liquidity on profitability is not linear, that refers to asymmetric effects. The relationship between profitability and global liquidity for each subsector is different, depending on its asset structure as a result of the generation source. --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Conclusion .left-column[ .font400[3.] <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> .font400[4.] ] .right-column[ .font120[ > Increases in global liquidity, i.e., negative WIR, present stronger effects on profitability, but these are not persistent over time. <br> <br> <hr> <br> > Uranium companies show strong positive effects on profitability given changes in global liquidity (ie negative WIR). ] ] ??? Diapo 12: Conclusiones The most relevant effect occurs when the WIR is negative, that refers to, increases in global liquidity. This effect occurs in the first, second, or third trimester, but it is not persistent over time. The uranium subsector has a different behavior from other subsectors. Future research could analyze the specific composition of the assets in this subsector. --- <div class="my-logo-right"></div> # Conclusion .left-column[ <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> .font400[5.] ] .right-column[ <br> <br> <hr> <br> .font120[ > We show that the decrease in interest rates by the different monetary authorities boosts liquidity and, in turn, the profitability of energy companies. This supports economic growth and restores financial stability. ] <br> <hr> ] ??? Diapo 13: Conclusiones Finally, we can conclude that the actions taken by the monetary regulators to incentivize the economy,,, have effects on all the companies in the energy sector, mainly in oil and gas. --- class: inverse, mline, center, bottom <div class="my-logo-center"></div> # Thanks !!! <br> <br>
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juribeg@uoc.edu <br> <br> <br> <br> ??? Diapositiva 14 – Thanks Thank you very much for your attention. Again, I apologize for my imperfect pronunciation. Is there any question?