“…Thus six factors are selected from macroeconomics and capital markets to a broader geopolitical dimension which can capture the different responses of commodity volatility to the changes of these factors. According to existing literature, six macro factors are chosen including economic policy uncertainty (EPU; Balcilar et al, 2016 ; Bilgin et al, 2018 ), the economic surprise index (ESI; Maveé et al, 2016 ), default spread (DEF; Bhardwaj et al, 2015 ; Ordu et al, 2018 ), the investor sentiment index (SI; Bahloul, 2018 ; Ji et al, 2020b ), the volatility index (VIX; Silvennoinen and Thorp, 2013 ; Bilgin et al, 2018 ), and the geopolitical risk index (GPR; Antonakakis et al, 2017 ; Plakandaras et al, 2019 ). They are from three dimensions, namely, macroeconomics, capital market, and geopolitical risk.…”