The value-at-risk evaluation of Brent’s crude oil market

This study investigates the market risk of the Brent’s crude oil market. First the long memory time-varying volatility is modelled under the Chung’s specification. Second, for model adequacy evaluations on the heavy-tailed, long memory and endogenously estimated power transformation models indicated superior performance in out-of-sample forecasts. Lastly, these findings are further applied in the long and short trading positions of market risk evaluations of the Brent’s market.