Impact of speculator's expectations of returns and time scales of investment on crude oil price behaviors

Energy Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-84

  He, Ling Yun ^a,b   Fan, Ying ^a   Wei, Yi Ming ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crude oil prices; Ideal speculator; Speculator's expectations of return; Time scales of investment; Zipf analysis technique

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; DATA STRUCTURES; INVESTMENTS; PAPER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CRUDE OIL PRICES; IDEAL SPECULATOR; SPECULATOR'S EXPECTATIONS OF RETURN; TIME SCALES OF INVESTMENT; ZIPF ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE;

COSTS;

CRUDE OIL; ENERGY MARKET; INVESTMENT; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 56949088434     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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