MULTIDIMENSIONAL CALIBRATION OF CRUDE OIL AND REFINED PRODUCTS VIA SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES

To describe the joint dynamics of prices of crude oil and refined products we extend two-factor models to a multidimensional setting. The new model captures directly the general correlation structure between the different commodities in the form of certain covariance matrix. Since the associated sta...

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Published in:International journal of theoretical and applied finance 2019-02, Vol.22 (1), p.1850056
Main Authors: SALDIVAR, CAROLINA EFFIO, HERSKOVITS, JOSÉ, LUNA, JUAN PABLO, SAGASTIZÁBAL, CLAUDIA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Crude oil
Economic models
Gasoline
Heating
Matrices
Petroleum
Prices
Semidefinite programming
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Summary:To describe the joint dynamics of prices of crude oil and refined products we extend two-factor models to a multidimensional setting. The new model captures directly the general correlation structure between the different commodities in the form of certain covariance matrix. Since the associated state-space formulation makes use of such correlations, the feasible set of the resulting estimation problem includes the cone of positive semidefinite matrices. Tractability is ensured by means of an interior point method, specially tailored for nonlinear semidefinite programming problems. For different sets of historical prices of crude oil, heating oil, and gasoline, the empirical out-of-sample forecasts obtained with the approach proposed in this work systematically provide an excellent fit to data.
ISSN:0219-0249
1793-6322
DOI:10.1142/S0219024918500565