Commodity price time series possess interesting features, such as heavy-tailedness, skewness, heteroskedasticity, and non-linear dependence structures. These features pose challenges for modeling and forecasting. In this work, we explore how spatiotemporal copula-based time series models can be effectively employed for these purposes.We focus on price series for fossil fuels and carbon emissions. Further, we illustrate how the t-copula may be used in conditional heteroskedasticity modeling. The possible emergence of non-elliptical probabilistic forecasts in this context is examined and visualized. The problem of finding an appropriate point forecast given a nonelliptical probabilistic forecast is discussed. We propose a solution where the forecast is augmented with an artificial neural network (ANN). The ANN predicts the best (in MSE sense) quantile to use as point forecast. In a forecasting study, we find that the copula-based models are competitive.
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