Peer-Reviewed Journal Details
Mandatory Fields
Cummins M.;Dowling M.;Kearney F.
2016
July
International Review of Financial Analysis
Oil market modelling: A comparative analysis of fundamental and latent factor approaches
Published
3 ()
Optional Fields
Fundamental models
46
211
218
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.We formally compare fundamental factor and latent factor approaches to oil price modelling. Fundamental modelling has a long history in seeking to understand oil price movements, while latent factor modelling has a more recent and limited history, but has gained popularity in other financial markets. The two approaches, though competing, have not formally been compared as to effectiveness. For a range of short- medium- and long-dated WTI oil futures we test a recently proposed five-factor fundamental model and a Principal Component Analysis latent factor model. Our findings demonstrate that there is no discernible difference between the two techniques in a dynamic setting. We conclude that this infers some advantages in adopting the latent factor approach due to the difficulty in determining a well specified fundamental model.
1057-5219
10.1016/j.irfa.2016.05.010
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