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This paper attempts to reconcile two strands of literature on oil and speculation: one that posits the predominance of … statistically the possibility of speculation among the main reasons behind the 2008 oil price swing. We also explicitly recognize … strands of literature on oil and speculation: one that posits the predominance of supply/demand fundamentals, and one that …
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This paper documents a systematic investigation on the predictability of short-term trends of crude oil prices on a daily basis. In stark contrast with longer-term predictions of crude oil prices, short-term prediction with time horizons of 1-3 days posits an important problem that is quite...
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We evaluate alternative models of the volatility of commodity futures prices based on high-frequency intraday data from the crude oil futures markets for the October 2001-December 2012 period. These models are implemented with a simple GMM estimator that matches sample moments of the realized...
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The weak-form efficiency of energy futures markets has long been studied and empirical evidence suggests controversial conclusions. In this work, nonparametric methods are adopted to estimate the Hurst indexes of the WTI crude oil futures prices (1983–2012) and a strict statistical test in the...
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This study aims to investigate the speculative efficiency of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) Light Sweet Crude Oil futures market and the effectiveness of these futures contracts in hedging the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price risk. The period of interest ranges between...
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This paper investigates the relationship between trading volume and price volatility in the crude oil and natural gas futures markets when using high-frequency data. By regressing various realized volatility measures (with/without jumps) on trading volume and trading frequency, our results...
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We use the information in intraday data to forecast the volatility of crude oil at a horizon of 1–66days using a variety of models relying on the decomposition of realized variance in its positive or negative (semivariances) part and its continuous or discontinuous part (jumps). We show the...
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of futures prices. Efficiency of the market is analysed in terms of the expected excess returns to speculation in the …
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Many governments are heavily exposed to oil price risk, especially those dependent on revenue derived from oil production. For these governments, dealing with large price movements is difficult and costly. Traditional approaches, such as stabilization funds, are inherently flawed. Oil risk...
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Abstract. We investigate the macro factors that can explain the monthly oil futures return for the NYMEX WTI futures contract for the time period 1993:11 to 2010:03. We build a new database of 187 real and nominal macroeconomic variables from developed and emerging countries and resort to the...
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