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Futures Prices are Useful Predictors of the Spot Price of Crude Oil

Reinhard Ellwanger and Stephen Snudden

Year: 2023
Volume: Volume 44
Number: Number 4
DOI: 10.5547/01956574.44.4.rell
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Abstract:
How well do futures prices forecast the spot price of crude oil? Contrary to the established view, futures prices significantly improve upon the accuracy of monthly no-change forecasts. This results from two innovations. First, we document that independent of the construction of futures-based forecasts, longer-horizon futures prices have become better predictors of crude oil spot prices since the mid-2000s. Second, we show that futures curves constructed using end-of-month prices instead of average prices have consistently been able to generate large accuracy-improvements for short-horizon forecasts of average prices. These findings are remarkably robust and apply to all major crude oil benchmarks.





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