Lau, Marco; Su, Yongyang; Tan, Na; Zhang, Zhe - In: PharmacoEconomics 4 (2014) 1, pp. 99-112
This paper is the first study to examine the effectiveness of the Shanghai Fuel Oil Futures Contract (SHF) in risk reduction on the Chinese energy oil market. We find that the SHF contract can help investors reduce risk by approximately 45 %, lower than empirical evidence in developed markets,...