Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214627 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 237
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Law and Economics, Darmstadt
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.
Subjects: 
oil price prediction
vector autoregression
regularization
JEL: 
C32
Q47
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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