Examining the predictive information of CBOE OVX on China's oil futures volatility : Evidence from MS-MIDAS models

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This study evaluates whether CBOE crude oil volatility index (OVX) owns forecasting ability for China's oil futures volatility using Markov-regime mixed data sampling (MS-MIDAS) models. In-sample empirical result shows that, OVX can significantly lead to high future short-term, middle-term and long-term volatilities with regard to Chinese oil futures market. Moreover, our proposed model, the Markov-regime MIDAS with including the OVX (MS-MIDAS-RV-OVX), significantly outperforms the MIDAS and other competing models. Unsurprising results further confirm that OVX indeed contain predictive information for oil realized volatility (especially significant and robust in middle-term and long-term horizons) and regime switching is useful to deal with the structural break within the energy market. We carry out economic value analysis and discuss OVX's asymmetric effects concerning different trading hours and good (bad) OVX, and find OVX performs better in day-time trading hours and the good OVX is more predictive for the oil futures RV than the bad OVX. The further discussion also confirms our previous conclusions are robust during the highly volatile period of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:212

Enthalten in:

Energy (Oxford, England) - 212(2020) vom: 01. Dez., Seite 118743

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lu, Xinjie [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jiqian [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jianqiong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

CBOE OVX
China’s oil futures
Journal Article
MIDAS model
Regime Switching
Volatility forecasting

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Date Revised 28.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.energy.2020.118743

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314774971