Oil Price Volatility and the Role of Speculation /

How much does speculation contribute to oil price volatility? We revisit this contentious question by estimating a sign-restricted structural vector autoregression (SVAR). First, using a simple storage model, we show that revisions to expectations regarding oil market fundamentals and the effect of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beidas-Strom, Samya
Other Authors: Pescatori, Andrea
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/218
Online Access:Full text available on IMF