Fundamentals, Derivatives Market Information and Oil Price Volatility

Journal of Futures Markets - Tập 36 Số 4 - Trang 317-344 - 2016
Michel A. Robe1, Jonathan Wallen1
1Michel A. Robe and Jonathan Wallen are at Kogod School of Business, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia.

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We analyze empirically what drives market expectations of crude oil price volatility. Between 2000 and 2014, we investigate the links between the term structure of oil option‐implied volatilities (IVs) and global macroeconomic conditions, physical market fundamentals (OPEC surplus output capacity, oil storage) and economy‐wide financial conditions (captured by the equity VIX). The VIX and the constraints affecting oil output or inventories have statistically and economically significant explanatory power for the short‐dated oil IVs and for the WTI IV term structure. After controlling for the VIX, in contrast, macroeconomic variables and a measure of speculative activity based on public data are both insignificant. Our model, which outperforms a benchmark ARIMA specification both in and out of sample, suggests an approach for studying volatility in asset markets that behave as satellites to other markets. Published 2015. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. Jrl Fut Mark 36:317–344, 2016

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