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Fluctuations and Forecasting of Carbon Price Based on A Hybrid Ensemble Learning GARCH-LSTM-Based Approach: A Case of Five Carbon Trading Markets in China

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  • Sha Liu

    (School of Economics, Management of Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an 710065, China
    The Research Center of Economics and Management of Oil and Gas Resources, Xi’an 710065, China)

  • Yiting Zhang

    (School of Economics, Management of Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an 710065, China
    The Research Center of Economics and Management of Oil and Gas Resources, Xi’an 710065, China)

  • Junping Wang

    (School of Economics, Management of Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an 710065, China
    The Research Center of Economics and Management of Oil and Gas Resources, Xi’an 710065, China)

  • Danlei Feng

    (School of Economics, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China)

Abstract

Carbon trading risk management and policy making require accurate forecasting of carbon trading prices. Based on the sample of China’s carbon emission trading pilot market, this paper firstly uses the Augmented Dickey–Fuller test and Autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity model to test the stationarity and autocorrelation of carbon trading price returns, uses the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity family model to analyze the persistence, risk and asymmetry of carbon trading price return fluctuations, and then proposes a hybrid prediction model neural network (generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity–long short-term memory network) due to the shortcomings of GARCH models in carbon price fluctuation analysis and prediction. The model is used to predict the carbon trading price. The results show that the carbon trading pilots have different degrees of volatility aggregation characteristics and the volatility persistence is long, among which only the Shanghai and Beijing carbon trading markets have risk premiums. The other pilot returns have no correlation with risks, and the fluctuations of carbon trading prices and returns are asymmetrical. The prediction results of different models show that the root mean square error (RMSE) of Hubei, Shenzhen and Shanghai carbon trading pilots based on the GARCH-LSTM model is significantly lower than that of the single GARCH model, and the RMSE values are reduced by 0.0006, 0.2993 and 0.0151, respectively. The RMSE in the three pilot markets improved by 0.0007, 0.3011 and 0.0157, respectively, compared to the standalone LSTM model. At the same time, compared with the single model, the GARCH-LSTM model significantly increased the R^2 value in Hubei (0.2000), Shenzhen (0.7607), Shanghai (0.0542) and Beijing (0.0595). Therefore, compared with other models, the GARCH-LSTM model can significantly improve the prediction accuracy of carbon price and provide a new idea for scientifically predicting the fluctuation of financial time series such as carbon price.

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  • Sha Liu & Yiting Zhang & Junping Wang & Danlei Feng, 2024. "Fluctuations and Forecasting of Carbon Price Based on A Hybrid Ensemble Learning GARCH-LSTM-Based Approach: A Case of Five Carbon Trading Markets in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(4), pages 1-23, February.
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