Oil price forecastability and economic uncertainty

Stelios Bekiros, Rangan Gupta and Alessia Paccagnini

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Abstract: Information on economic policy uncertainty does matter in predicting the change in oil prices. We compare the forecastability of standard, Bayesian and time-varying VAR against univariate models. The time-varying VAR model outranks all alternative models over the period 2007:1–2014:2.

Keywords: Oil prices; Economic policy uncertainty; Forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C32 C53 E60 Q41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2015-07
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Published in: Economics Letters, 132() 2015-07

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Journal Article: Oil price forecastability and economic uncertainty (2015)
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