“…Understanding the determinants of the crude oil future market is of great interest. Previous research mainly examines the contributions of supply and demand fundamentals (Pan et al, 2017;Meng and Liu, 2019), macroeconomic factors (Aloui et al, 2016;Meng and Liu, 2019), financial factors (Kyrtsou et al, 2016;Lu et al, 2020) and political factors (Chen et al, 2016;…”