IMF Working Papers

Volatility of Oil Prices

By Peter Wickham

August 1, 1996

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Peter Wickham. Volatility of Oil Prices, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed December 26, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines the behavior of crude oil prices since 1980, and in particular the volatility of these prices. The empirical analysis covers “spot” prices for one of the key internationally traded crudes, namely Dated Brent Blend. A GARCH (generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic) model, which allows the conditional variance to be time-variant, is estimated for the period which includes the oil price slump of 1986 and the surge in prices in 1990 as a result of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The paper also discusses the growth of futures and derivative markets and the dynamic links between spot and futures markets.

Subject: Commodities, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Futures, Futures markets, Oil, Oil prices, Price controls, Prices

Keywords: Futures, Futures markets, Market, Market efficiency, Middle East, Oil, Oil market deregulation, Oil market trader, Oil price data, Oil price series, Oil price slump, Oil price volatility, Oil prices, Participants reaction, Price, Price controls, Price curve, Price risk, Price surge, Spot price, Term contract, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    20

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1996/082

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0821996

  • ISBN:

    9781451954722

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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