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Improving Oil Price Forecasts by Sparse VAR Methods

Krüger, Jens ; Ruths Sion, Sebastian (2019)
Improving Oil Price Forecasts by Sparse VAR Methods.
doi: 10.25534/tuprints-00009643
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Item Type: Report
Type of entry: Primary publication
Title: Improving Oil Price Forecasts by Sparse VAR Methods
Language: English
Date: December 2019
Series: Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics
Series Volume: 237
DOI: 10.25534/tuprints-00009643
Abstract:

In this paper we document the results of a forecast evaluation exercise for the real world price of crude oil using VAR models estimated by sparse (regularization) estimators. These methods have the property to constrain single parameters to zero. We find that estimating VARs with three core variables (real price of oil, index of global real economic activity, change in global crude oil production) by the sparse methods is associated with substantial reductions of forecast errors. The transformation of the variables (taking logs or differences) is also crucial. Extending the VARs by further variables is not associated with additonal gains in forecast performance as is the application of impulse indicator saturation before the estimation.

URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-96436
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JEL classification: C32, Q47

Classification DDC: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Divisions: 01 Department of Law and Economics > Volkswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete
01 Department of Law and Economics > Volkswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete > Emprical Economics
Date Deposited: 05 Dec 2019 12:57
Last Modified: 09 Jul 2020 02:58
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/9643
PPN: 456673598
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