کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5064021 1476705 2016 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Stationarity changes in long-run energy commodity prices*
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تغییرات ایستایی در قیمت های انرژی در بلند مدت *
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی


- This paper contributes to the literatures on speculative storage and scarcity.
- We test if long-run U.S. coal, oil and gas prices became non-stationary.
- We pre-test for structural breaks when testing for changes in persistence.
- Coal prices are found to be trend stationary, oil prices become non-stationary.
- We caution against modeling commodity market fundamentals as non-stationary.

Situated at the intersection of the literatures on speculative storage and non-renewable commodity scarcity, this paper considers whether changes in persistence have occurred in long-run U.S. prices of the energy commodities crude oil, natural gas and bituminous coal. We allow for a structural break when testing for a break in persistence to avoid a change in the stochastic properties of prices being confounded by an unaccounted-for deterministic shift in the price series. We find that coal prices are trend stationary throughout their evolution and that oil prices change from stationarity to non-stationarity in the decade between the late 1960s to late 1970s. The result on gas prices is ambiguous. Our results demonstrate the importance of accounting for a possible structural shift when testing for breaks in persistence, while being robust to the exact date of the structural break. Based on our analysis we caution against viewing long-run energy commodity prices as being non-stationary and conclude in favor of modeling commodity market fundamentals as stationary, meaning that speculative storage will tend to have a dampening effect on prices. We also cannot reject that long-run prices of coal and, with some hesitation, gas follow a Hotelling-type rule. In contrast, we reject the Hotelling rule for oil prices since the late 1960s/early 1970s.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Energy Economics - Volume 59, September 2016, Pages 96-103
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