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外文题目: The Relationship between Crude Oil Spot and Futures
Prices: Cointegration, Linear and Nonlinear Causality
出 处: Energy Economics
作 者:
Stelios s , Cees G.H Diks
原 文:
The Relationship between Crude Oil Spot and Futures Prices:
Cointegration, Linear and Nonlinear Causality!
Abstract
The present study investigates the linear and nonlinear causal linkages between
daily spot and futures prices for maturities of one, two, three and four months of West
Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil. The data cover two periods October
1991-October 1999 and November 1999-October 2007, with the latter being
significantly more turbulent. Apart from the conventional linear Granger test we apply
a new nonparametric test for nonlinear causality by Diks and Panchenko after
controlling for cointegration. In addition to the traditional pairwise analysis, we test
for causality while correcting for the effects of the other variables. To check if any of
the observed causality is strictly nonlinear in nature, we also examine the nonlinear
causal relationships of VECM filtered residuals. Finally, we investigate the hypothesis
of nonlinear non-causality after controlling for conditional heteroskedasticity in the
data using a GARCH-BEKK model. Whilst the linear causal relationships disappear
after VECM cointegration filtering, nonlinear causal linkages in some cases persist
even after GARCH filtering in both periods. This indicates that spot and futures
returns may exhibit asymmetries and statistically significant higher-order moments.
Moreover, the results imply that if nonlinear effects are accounted for, neither market
leads or lags the other consistently, videlicet the pattern of leads and lags changes
over time.
Keywords: Nonparametric nonlinear causality; Oil Futures Market;
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Cointegration;
The role of futures markets in providing an efficient price discovery mechanism
has been an area of extensive empirical research. Several studies have dealt with the
Lead-lag relationships between spot and futures prices of commodities with the
objective of investigating the issue of market efficiency. Garbade and Silber (1983)
first presented a model to examine the price discovery role of futures prices and the
effect of arbitrage on price changes in spot and futures markets of commodities. The
Garbade-Silber model was applied to the feeder cattle market by Oellermann et al.
(1989) and to the live hog commodity market by Schroeder and Goodwin (1991),
while a similar study by Silvapulle and Moosa (1999) examined the oil market. Bopp
and Sitzer (1987) tested the hypothesis that futures prices are good predictors of spot
prices in the heating oil market, while Serletis and Banack (1990) and Chen and Lin
(2004) tested for market efficiency using cointegration analysis. Crowder and Hamed
(1993) and Sadorsky (2000) also used cointegration to test the simple efficiency
hypothesis and the arbitrage condition for crude oil futures. Finally, Schwarz and
Szakmary (1994) examined the price discovery process in the markets of crude and
heating oil.
In theory, since both futures and spot prices “refect”the same aggregate value of
the underlying asset and considering that instantaneous arbitrage is possible, futures
should neither lead nor lag the spot price. However, the empirical evidence is diverse,
although the majority of studies indicate that futures influence spot prices but not vice
versa. The usual rationalization of this result is that the futures prices respond to new
information more quickly than spot prices, due to lower transaction costs and
flexibility of short selling. With reference to the oil market, if new information
indicates that oil prices are likely to rise, perhaps because of an OPEC decision to
restrict production, or an imminent harsh winter, a speculator has the choice of either
buying crude oil futures or spot. Whilst spot purchases require more initial outlay and
may take longer to implement, futures transactions can be implemented immediately
by speculators without an interest in the physical commodity per se and with little
up-front cash. Moreover, hedgers who are interested for the physical commodity and
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