Forecasting crude oil spot price using OECD petroleum inventory levels

Ye, Michael; Zyren, John; Shore, Joanne

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“…Since the government oil stocks tend to be constant in the short-run, the relative level of government oil stocks (RGS) can be obtained by simply removing the trend component. Ye et al (2002Ye et al ( ), (2005 and (2007) In the pure time series framework, two models, which are particularly useful for forecasting oil prices in the long-run, are proposed by Pindyck (1999) and Radchenko (2005).…”

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Evaluating the Empirical Performance of Alternative Econometric Models for Oil Price Forecasting

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Evaluating the Empirical Performance of Alternative Econometric Models for Oil Price Forecasting SummaryThe relevance of oil in the world economy explains why considerable effort has been devoted to the development of different types of econometric models for oil price forecasting. Several specifications have been proposed in the economic literature. Some are based on financial theory and concentrate on the relationship between spot and futures prices ("financial" models). Others assign a key role to variables explaining the characteristics of the physical oil market ("structural" models). The empirical literature is very far from any consensus about the appropriate model for oil price forecasting that should be implemented. Relative to the previous literature, this paper is novel in several respects. First of all, we test and systematically evaluate the ability of several alternative econometric specifications proposed in the literature to capture the dynamics of oil prices. Second, we analyse the effects of different data frequencies on the coefficient estimates and forecasts obtained using each selected econometric specification. Third, we compare different models at different data frequencies on a common sample and common data. Fourth, we evaluate the forecasting performance of each selected model using static and dynamic forecasts, as well as different measures of forecast errors. Finally, we propose a new class of models which combine the relevant aspects of the financial and structural specifications proposed in the literature ("mixed" models). Our empirical findings can be summarized as follows. Financial models in levels do not produce satisfactory forecasts for the WTI spot price. The financial error correction model yields accurate in-sample forecasts. Real and strategic variables alone are insufficient to capture the oil spot price dynamics in the forecasting sample. Our proposed mixed models are statistically adequate and exhibit accurate forecasts. Different data frequencies seem to affect the forecasting ability of the models under analysis.

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Evaluating the Empirical Performance of Alternative Econometric Models for Oil Price Forecasting

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“…Since the government oil stocks tend to be constant in the short-run, 10 the relative level of government oil stocks (RGS) can be obtained by simply removing the trend component. Ye et al (2002), (2005) and (2007) In the pure time series framework, two models, which are particularly useful for forecasting oil prices in the long-run, are proposed by Pindyck (1999) and Radchenko (2005). The data used by the authors cover the period 1870-1996 and refer to nominal oil prices deflated by wholesale prices expressed in US dollars (base year is 1967).…”

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Oil Price Forecast Evaluation with Flexible Loss Functions

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SummaryThe empirical literature is very far from any consensus about the appropriate model for oil price forecasting that should be implemented. Relative to the previous literature, this paper is novel in several respects. First of all, we test and systematically evaluate the ability of several alternative econometric specifications proposed in the literature to capture the dynamics of oil prices. Second, we analyse the effects of different data frequencies on the coefficient estimates and forecasts obtained using each selected econometric specification. Third, we compare different models at different data frequencies on a common sample and common data. Fourth, we evaluate the forecasting performance of each selected model using static forecasts, as well as different measures of forecast errors. Finally, we propose a new class of models which combine the relevant aspects of the financial and structural specifications proposed in the literature ("mixed" models). Our empirical findings suggest that, irrespective of the shape of the loss function, the class of financial models is to be preferred to time series models. Both financial and time series models are better than mixed and structural models. Results of the Diebold and Mariano test are not conclusive, for the loss differential seems to be statistically insignificant in the large majority of cases. Although the random walk model is not statistically outperformed by any of the alternative models, the empirical findings seem to suggest that theoretically well-grounded financial models are valid instruments for producing accurate forecasts of the WTI spot price. Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank Giliola Frey, Marzio Galeotti, Alessandro Lanza, Michael McAleer and Yves Smeers for insightful discussion, as well as seminar participants at the University of Bath, FEEM and the University of Milan-Bicocca for helpful comments. The authors are grateful to Chiara Longo for her research assistance related to a previous version of the paper. Andrea Bastianin gratefully acknowledges the following research grant: "Dote Ricercatori: FSE, Regione Lombardia". Keywords 2 Oil Price Forecast Evaluation with Flexible Loss FunctionsAbstract. The empirical literature is very far from any consensus about the appropriate model for oil price forecasting that should be implemented. Relative to the previous literature, this paper is novel in several respects. First of all, we test and systematically evaluate the ability of several alternative econometric specifications proposed in the literature to capture the dynamics of oil prices. Second, we analyse the effects of different data frequencies on the coefficient estimates and forecasts obtained using each selected econometric specification. Third, we compare different models at different data frequencies on a common sample and common data. Fourth, we evaluate the forecasting performance of each selected model using static forecasts, as well as different measures of forecast errors. Finally, we propose a new class of mode...

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“…Some statisticalbased models have been widely used for crude oil prices forecasting. Typical models include the probabilistic model (Abramson and Finizza, 1995), econometric structural models (Huntington, 1994;Ye et al, 2002Ye et al, , 2005Ye et al, , 2006, co-integration analysis (Gulen, 1998), vector auto-regression models (VAR) (Mirmirani and Li, 2004), error correction models (ECM) (Lanza et al, 2005), auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) (Yu et al, 2008) and semi-parametric approach based on GARCH properties (Morana, 2001). Usually, these models can provide good prediction results when the crude oil price series under study is linear or near linear.…”

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Assessing Potentiality of Support Vector Machine Method in Crude Oil Price Forecasting

Zhang

Wang

2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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Crude oil price forecasting is one of the most important topics in the field of energy research. Accordingly, numerous methods such as statistical, econometrical and intelligent approaches are applied for crude oil price forecasting. In this paper, a typical competitive learning algorithm, support vector machine (SVM), is empirically investigated to verify the feasibility and potentiality of SVM in crude oil price forecasting. For this purpose, five different prediction models, feed-forward neural networks (FNN), auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, fractional integrated ARIMA (ARFIMA) model, Markov-switching ARFIMA (MS-ARFIMA) model, and random walk (RW) model are used in the study. Experimental results obtained show that the SVM model outperforms the other five methods, implying that it is a fairly good candidate for crude oil price forecasting in terms of either one-step prediction or multi-step prediction.

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Forecasting crude oil spot price using OECD petroleum inventory levels

Cited by 75 publications

References 15 publications

Evaluating the Empirical Performance of Alternative Econometric Models for Oil Price Forecasting

Evaluating the Empirical Performance of Alternative Econometric Models for Oil Price Forecasting

Oil Price Forecast Evaluation with Flexible Loss Functions

Assessing Potentiality of Support Vector Machine Method in Crude Oil Price Forecasting

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