Abstract
In macroeconomic forecasting, the real price of oil is traditionally computed as the monthly average price of oil deflated by the price index. Consequently, the no-change forecast used to benchmark forecasts of the real price of crude oil is a monthly average price. We demonstrate that an alternative no-change forecast which reflects the random walk forecast from daily oil prices – the end-of-month price – is significantly more accurate in predicting the real price of oil up to one year ahead. We find that at the one-step-ahead prediction, all existing forecasts that outperform the monthly average no-change forecast perform worse than the end-of-month no-change forecast. The results call into question the usefulness of existing forecasting approaches for the real price of crude oil relative to naive forecasts.
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