期刊
ECONOMIC MODELLING
卷 50, 期 -, 页码 64-71出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2015.06.007
关键词
Price spread; Structural change; CUSUM of squares-based test; Unit root test
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资金
- Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [71201001]
- Ministry of Education of China, Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund [12YJC790073]
- Pujiang Project of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [13PJC048]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research team in SUFE [IRT13077]
In recent years, WTI oil has traded at a sizable discount against Brent oil, and this divergence has enlarged the price spreads. We investigate whether there has been a structural change in the persistence of WTI-Brent crude oil price spreads in recent years, i.e., a change from a stationary to a non-stationary time series. The CUSUM of the squares-based test of Leybourne et al. (2007b) is performed in which the breakpoint is not pre-specified, and the estimated breakpoint is found to have occurred in 2010. We conduct various unit root tests for the price spreads in two sub-samples, defined as before and after the estimated breakpoint, and find empirical evidence supporting our persistence change hypothesis. Two alternative persistence change tests are also performed to make our conclusion more robust. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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