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Price relationships in crude oil futures: new evidence from CFTC disaggregated data
Chevallier, Julien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707481
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Jumps and stochastic volatility in crude oil futures prices using conditional moments of integrated volatility
Baum, Christopher; Zerilli, Paola - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2014
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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Testing the weak-form efficiency of the WTI crude oil futures market
Jiang, Zhi-Qiang; Xie, Wen-Jie; Zhou, Wei-Xing - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 405 (2014) C, pp. 235-244
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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Measuring Oil-Price Shocks Using Market-Based Information
Wu, Tao; Cavallo, Michele - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We study the effects of oil-price shocks on the U.S. economy combining narrative and quantitative approaches. After examining daily oil-related events since 1984, we classify them into various event types. We then develop measures of exogenous shocks that avoid endogeneity and predictability...
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Efficiency and hedging effectiveness in the NYMEX crude oil futures market
ÇAVUŞOĞLU, Tarkan; GÖKTEN, Soner - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 26 (2011) 308, pp. 29-51
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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On the volatility–volume relationship in energy futures markets using intraday data
Chevallier, Julien; Sévi, Benoît - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 6, pp. 1896-1909
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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Forecasting the volatility of crude oil futures using intraday data
Sévi, Benoît - In: European Journal of Operational Research 235 (2014) 3, pp. 643-659
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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World Crude Oil Markets; Monetary Policy and the Recent Oil Shock
Krichene, Noureddine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between monetary policy and oil prices within a world oil demand and supply model. Low price and high income elasticities of demand and rigid supply explain high price volatilities and producers' market power. Exchange and interest rates do influence oil...
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Forecasting Accuracy of Crude Oil Futures Prices
Kumar, Manmohan S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1991
of futures prices. Efficiency of the market is analysed in terms of the expected excess returns to speculation in the …
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Subordinated Levy Processes and Applications to Crude Oil Options
Krichene, Noureddine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
One approach to oil markets is to treat oil as an asset, besides its role as a commodity. Speculative and nonspeculative activity by investors in the derivatives markets could be responsible for a sizable increase in oil prices. This paper recognizes both the consumption and investment aspects...
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