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Analysis of the Behavior of Volatility in Crude Oil Price
Journal of Economic & Financial Studies
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Analysis of the Behavior of Volatility in Crude Oil Price
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Aiube, Fernando Antonio Lucena
Baidya, Tara Keshar Nanda |
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GARCH models; Two-factor model; Crude oil; Volatility. C13; C22; G13; C58. |
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| Description |
This article analyzes volatility in the spot price of crude oil. In recent years the price has also increased reaching more than US$ 140/barrel in the last decade. Moreover, the negotiated trading volume in the futures market in recent years higher than the trading volume of the earlier years. How these changes have affected the volatility in the oil prices? Does the presence of huge players, which leads to an increase in the volume under negotiation, increase volatility? Has the persistence been affected? To answer these questions, we first estimated spot prices using the two-factor model of Schwartz and Smith. With this filtering process we can capture the entire information from the future term-structure. We then analyzed the estimated spot-price series to identify the stylized facts and then adjusted conditional volatility models of GARCH family. Our findings show that the volatility in the high prices period is not different from that of low prices. The shocks behaved as transitory and the persistence in the high prices period decreased. This fact has pricing and hedging implications for short-term derivatives.
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LAR Center Press
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2014-02-25
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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| Identifier |
http://journalofeconomics.org/index.php/site/article/view/129
10.18533/jefs.v2i01.129 |
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| Source |
Journal of Economic & Financial Studies; Vol 2, No 01 (2014): February; 64-72
2379-9471 2379-9463 |
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eng
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http://journalofeconomics.org/index.php/site/article/view/129/219
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Copyright (c) 2015 Journal of Economic & Financial Studies
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