Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27637
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series 1 No. 2008,10
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
While some of the recent surge of oil prices can be attributed to robust global demand at a time of tight production capacities, commentators occasionally also blame the impact of speculators for part of the price pressure. We propose an empirical oil market model with heterogeneous speculators. Whereas trend-extrapolating chartists may tend to destabilize the market, fundamentalists exercise a stabilizing effect on the price dynamics. Using monthly data for WTI oil prices, our STR-GARCH estimates indicate that oil price cycles may indeed emerge due to the nonlinear interplay between different trader types.
Subjects: 
oil price dynamics
endogenous bubbles
STR GARCH model
JEL: 
Q33
D84
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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