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Small Trends and Big Cycles in Crude Oil Prices

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  • Xiaoyi Mu
  • Haichun Ye

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We employ an unobserved components model to disentangle the long-term trend from cyclical movements in the price of internationally traded crude oil using data from 1861 to 2010. The in-sample estimation of the model identifies a deterministic quadratic trend and two types of cycles, with the short cycle having a period of 6 years and the long cycle of 29 years. Compared to the large amplitude of the cycles, the growth rate of the long-term trend is small. The out-of-sample forecasting performance of various competing models is compared to that of a “no change†random walk forecast. While the random walk forecast tends to be the most accurate at shorter horizons, it is outperformed by the trend-cycle models at horizons longer than one year. The results provide evidence of predictability in the price of crude oil at long horizons.

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  • Xiaoyi Mu & Haichun Ye, 2015. "Small Trends and Big Cycles in Crude Oil Prices," The Energy Journal, , vol. 36(1), pages 49-72, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:enejou:v:36:y:2015:i:1:p:49-72
    DOI: 10.5547/01956574.36.1.3
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