Forecasting Oil Price by Hierarchical Shrinkage in Dynamic Parameter Models

Yuntong Liu, Yu Wei, Yi Liu and Wenjuan Li

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2020, vol. 2020, 1-12

Abstract:

The aim of this paper is to forecast monthly crude oil price with a hierarchical shrinkage approach, which utilizes not only LASSO for predictor selection, but a hierarchical Bayesian method to determine whether constant coefficient (CC) or time-varying parameter (TVP) predictive regression should be employed in each out-of-sample forecasting step. This newly developed method has the advantages of both model shrinkage and automatic switch between CC and TVP forecasting models; thus, this may produce more accurate predictions of crude oil prices. The empirical results show that this hierarchical shrinkage model can outperform many commonly used forecasting benchmark methods, such as AR, unobserved components stochastic volatility (UCSV), and multivariate regression models in forecasting crude oil price on various forecasting horizons.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1155/2020/6640180

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