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An N-factor Gaussian model of oil futures prices

✍ Scribed by Gonzalo Cortazar; Lorenzo Naranjo

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
239 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0270-7314

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Abstract

This article studies the ability of an N‐factor Gaussian model to explain the stochastic behavior of oil futures prices when estimated with the use of all available price information, as opposed to traditional approaches of aggregating data for a set of maturities. A Kalman filter estimation procedure that allows for a time‐dependent number of daily observations is used to calibrate the model. When applied to all daily oil futures price transactions from 1992 to 2001, the model performs very well, requiring at least three factors to explain the term structure of futures prices, but four factors to fit the volatility term structure. The model also performs very well for daily copper futures transactions from 1992 to 2001 and for out‐of‐sample daily oil futures transactions from 2002 to 2004. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 26:243–268, 2006

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