Modelling and Forecasting Oil Prices: The Role of Asymmetric Cycles

Abstract

Using a simple unobserved components model, we show that explicitly modelling asymmetric cycles on crude oil prices improves the forecast ability of univariate time series models of the oil price.

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Oil prices forecasting non-linear time series analysis asymmetric cycles

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