IMF Working Papers

Recent Dynamics of Crude Oil Prices

By Noureddine Krichene

December 1, 2006

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Noureddine Krichene. Recent Dynamics of Crude Oil Prices, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed September 18, 2024
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Summary

Crude oil prices have been on a run-up spree in recent years. Their dynamics were characterized by high volatility, high intensity jumps, and strong upward drift, indicating that oil markets were constantly out-of-equilibrium. An explanation of the oil price process in terms of the underlying fundamentals of oil markets and world economy was provided, viewing pressure on oil prices mainly as a result of rigid crude oil supply and an expanding world demand for crude oil. A change in the oil price process parameters would require a change in the underlying fundamentals. Market expectations, extracted from call and put option prices, anticipated no change, in the short term, in the underlying fundamentals. Markets expected oil prices to remain volatile and jumpy, and with higher probabilities, to rise, rather than fall, above the expected mean.

Subject: Asset prices, Commodities, Financial institutions, Futures, Oil, Oil prices, Options, Prices

Keywords: Asset prices, Characteristic function, Crude oil, Cumulants, Drift, Fourier inversion, Fourier transform, Futures, Futures price, Inelasticities of oil demand and supply, Jump-diffusion, Kurtosis, Modeling asset price, Oil, Oil price density, Oil price dynamics, Oil prices, Option pricing, Option value, Options, Price density, Price effect, Price inelasticities of oil demand and supply, Price inelasticity, Price process, Return process, Skewness, State price density, Variance-gamma distribution, Volatility, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    28

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2006/299

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2006299

  • ISBN:

    9781451865592

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941