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Essays On Oil Price Volatility And Irreversible Investment, Daniel Joseph Pastor
Essays On Oil Price Volatility And Irreversible Investment, Daniel Joseph Pastor
Wayne State University Dissertations
In chapter 1, we provide an extensive and systematic evaluation of the relative
forecasting performance of several models for the volatility of daily spot
crude oil prices. Empirical research over the past decades has uncovered
significant gains in forecasting performance of Markov Switching GARCH
models over GARCH models for the volatility of financial assets and crude
oil futures. We find that, for spot oil price returns, non-switching models
perform better in the short run, whereas switching models tend to do better
at longer horizons.
In chapter 2, I investigate the impact of volatility on firms' irreversible investment decisions using real …