Facts and fiction in oil market modeling

  • 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.

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Author:Lutz KilianGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-624030
URL:https://ssrn.com/abstract=3965680
Parent Title (English):Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 661
Series (Serial Number):CFS working paper series (661)
Publisher:Center for Financial Studies
Place of publication:Frankfurt, M.
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2021
Year of first Publication:2021
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2021/11/22
Tag:Bayesian inference; Elasticity; global real activity; oil inventories; oil price; structural VAR
Issue:September 18, 2021
Page Number:49
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
JEL-Classification:C Mathematical and Quantitative Methods / C5 Econometric Modeling / C52 Model Evaluation and Selection
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht