In this paper, we review studies of oil volatility prediction from a new perspective: that of investors who require economic evaluations of forecasting performance. Our results indicate that no single volatility model outperforms all of the competing models, of which GARCH and realized...

This paper aims to create a composite national oil sentiment index and examine the sentiment effects on oil futures. The intent is to extrapolate this index for the US market and assess its viability and applicability to other countries in future research. Oil sentiment is measured through...