In this paper, we review studies of oil volatility prediction from a new perspective: that of investors who require economic evaluations of forecasting performance. Our results indicate that no single volatility model outperforms all of the competing models, of which GARCH and realized...

A well-documented finding is that explicitly using jumps cannot efficiently enhance the predictability of crude oil price volatility. To address this issue, we find a phenomenon, "momentum of jumps" (MoJ), that the predictive ability of the jump component is persistent when forecasting the oil...