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INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS IN ACCOUNTING FINANCE & MANAGEMENT
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 169-181Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/isaf.1519
Keywords
Agricultural commodity; Commodity price; Neural network machine learning; Price forecasting; Time series
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This study explores the application of neural network modeling in agricultural commodity price forecasting. By adjusting different model settings, decent predictive performance is achieved for coffee, corn, cotton, oats, soybeans, soybean oil, sugar, and wheat over long-term price datasets. The results can be used independently or combined with fundamental forecasts for forming perspectives of commodity price trends and conducting policy analysis.
Agricultural commodity price forecasting represents a key concern for market participants. We explore the usefulness of neural network modeling for forecasting problems in datasets of daily prices over periods of greater than 50 years for coffee, corn, cotton, oats, soybeans, soybean oil, sugar, and wheat. By investigating different model settings across the algorithm, delay, hidden neuron, and data-splitting ratio, we arrive at models leading to a decent performance for each commodity, with the overall relative root mean square error ranging from 1.70% to 3.19%. These results have small advantages over no-change models due to particular price adjustments in the prices considered here. Our results can be used on a standalone basis or combined with fundamental forecasts in forming perspectives of commodity price trends and conducting policy analysis. Our empirical framework should not be diffucult to implement, which is a critical consideration for many decision-makers and has the potential to be generalized for price forecasts of more commodities.
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