Introduction -- Part I. Asset Pricing -- Chapter 1. Oil Price Uncertainty: Panel Evidence from the G7 and BRICS Countries -- Chapter 2. Climate Risk and the Volatility of Agricultural Commodity Price Fluctuations: A Forecasting Experiment -- Chapter 3. Linking the COVID-19 Epidemic and Emerging...

This paper examines if overreaction of oil price forecasters is affected by uncertainty. Furthermore, it takes into account joint effects of uncertainty and oil price returns on forecast changes. The panel smooth transition regression model from Gonz alez et al. (2005) is applied with univariate...