Box-Jenkins modelling and forecasting of Brent crude oil price

Emmanuel Kwasi Mensah

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Abstract: The volatility in the crude oil price in the international market has risen much interest into the investigation of its price swing. In this project, we examine the dynamics of the monthly Brent oil price for the last two decades using the Box Jenkins ARIMA techniques and show that such model is not able to capture the volatility inherent in the crude oil price for an accurate forecast. We first divided the data into two. The first seventeen years used for the model construction and the last three years validating forecasting accuracy. The data is first differenced for stationarity and autocorrelation and residuals techniques used to select different ARIMA models for analysis. The performance of different models were compared and the result shows that a non-parsimonious ARIMA (1,1,1) model was the best forecasting model amidst the volatilities in the oil price.

Keywords: Brent crude oil; ARIMA; stationarity; forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C51 C52 E37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-02
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