TY  - UNPD
A1  - Kilian, Lutz
T1  - Facts and fiction in oil market modeling
T2  - Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 661
N2  - A series of recent articles has called into question the validity of VAR models of the global market for crude oil. These studies seek to replace existing oil market models by structural VAR models of their own based on different data, different identifying assumptions, and a different econometric approach. Their main aim has been to revise the consensus in the literature that oil demand shocks are a more important determinant of oil price fluctuations than oil supply shocks. Substantial progress has been made in recent years in sorting out the pros and cons of the underlying econometric methodologies and data in this debate, and in separating claims that are supported by empirical evidence from claims that are not. The purpose of this paper is to take stock of the VAR literature on global oil markets and to synthesize what we have learned. Combining this evidence with new data and analysis, I make the case that the concerns regarding the existing VAR oil market literature have been overstated and that the results from these models are quite robust to changes in the model specification.
T3  - CFS working paper series - 661 
KW  - Elasticity
KW  - structural VAR
KW  - Bayesian inference
KW  - oil price
KW  - global real activity
KW  - oil inventories
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62403
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-624030
UR  - https://ssrn.com/abstract=3965680
IS  - September 18, 2021
PB  - Center for Financial Studies
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -