期刊
ENERGY REPORTS
卷 5, 期 -, 页码 866-873出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2019.07.002
关键词
Economic policy uncertainty; EPU index; Crude-oil return volatility; GARCH-MIDAS
资金
- Faculty Research Grants of Macau University of Science and Technology [FRG-17-040-MSB]
- Research Funds for the Zhaoqing University, China [201824]
Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) has important implications for crude oil market. To explore the implications, this paper investigates the impact of EPU on the crude oil return volatility and which EPU index has the most forecasting power in crude oil market. To this end, we employ the GARCHMIDAS model which can incorporate lower frequency EPU index variable with higher frequency crude oil return variable effectively. We find that EPU has a positive and significant impact on the crude oil return volatility, but the effect is short-lived and the decay period is about one year. Particularly, our results show that the US EPU index has the best forecasting power for crude oil return volatility over the long-term, whereas China EPU index has the best forecasting performance in the past one year. Our findings have important implications on risk management for investors in crude oil market. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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