In this paper, we investigate whether the forecasted crude oil prices from the Survey of Professional Forecasters conducted by the European Central Bank contain information for the Brent crude oil return volatility predictions. With a variety of GARCH-Mixed Data Sampling, i.e., GARCH-MIDAS...

In this paper, we investigate whether the forecasted crude oil prices from the Survey of Professional Forecasters conducted by the European Central Bank contain information for the Brent crude oil return volatility predictions. With a variety of GARCH-Mixed Data Sampling, i.e., GARCH-MIDAS...

We propose a novel measure of the ex-ante commodity downside-risk premium (CDP) for each commodity based on a term structure model of commodity futures. Our theory-based CDP, capturing forward-looking information in the futures markets, outperforms well-known characteristics in explaining the...

In this paper, we study how global trade network provides a channel through which term premia comove and transmit across a large group of countries consisting both developed and developing economies. We provide the theoretical derivations on why the term premia may decrease with the trade...