Modeling and Forecasting Crude Oil Price Volatility: Evidence from Historical and Recent Data

Thomas Lux (), Mawuli Segnon () and Rangan Gupta
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Thomas Lux: Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Mawuli Segnon: Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany

No 201511, Working Papers from University of Pretoria, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper uses the Markov-switching multifractal (MSM) model and generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH)-type models to forecast oil price volatility over the time periods from January 02, 1875 to December 31, 1895 and from January 03, 1977 to March 24, 2014. Based on six di erent loss functions and by means of the superior predictive ability (SPA) test, we evaluate and compare their forecasting performance at short and long horizons. The empirical results indicate that none of our volatility models can uniformly outperform other models across all six different loss functions. However, the new MSM model comes out as the model that most often across forecasting horizons and subsamples cannot be outperformed by other models, with long memory GARCH-type models coming out second best.

Keywords: Crude oil prices; GARCH; Multifractal processes; SPA test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C52 C53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2015-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-for, nep-his, nep-mfd, nep-ore and nep-rmg
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