This paper models time-varying skewness for financial return dynamics. We decompose nancial returns into the product of the absolute returns and signs, so-called the intriguing decomposition. The joint distribution between the decomposed components is modeled through a copula function with...

Recent research has shown that recursive real-time VAR forecasts of the real price of oil tend to be more accurate than forecasts based on oil futures prices of the type commonly employed by central banks worldwide. Such monthly forecasts, however, differ in several important dimensions from the...