Electricity is not storable. As a consequence, electricity demand and supply need to be in balance at any moment in time as a shortage in production volume cannot be compensated with supply from inventories. However, if the installed power supply capacity is very flexible, variation in demand...

This paper examined the lead-lag relationship between the futures market and spot market for the metal commodity market during the sample period January 2010 through August 2014. The econometric tools like Unit root tests, Johansen co-integration test and Pairwise Granger Causality tests were...

This study examines the existence of Cointegration between the future and spot prices of highly traded currencies in India like USD, EURO, GBP, and JPY. The spot prices are collected from RBI reference Prices and future prices from MCX-SX (Multi Commodity Exchange-Stock Exchange) from October...

With due credit to the globalized interlinked economy, the international linkages, information transmission, and the spillover effect from one futures market to other markets across the world is well researched and documented. Especially several studies on equity, currency, and commodity markets...

In well-established and matured agricultural commodity futures market, like U.S., the futures markets are expected to serve as a central exchange for both domestic and international information and thus function as a primary mechanism for price discovery and reduce price variability through...

This paper provides insight in the time-varying relation between electricity futures prices and fundamentals in the form of prices of contracts for fossil fuels. As supply curves are not constant and different producers have different marginal costs of production, we argue that the relation...

The European Union Trading Scheme (EU ETS) gives emission allowances a market price and are a marginal cost factor for those power plants that run on polluting fuels. Power plants have these costs in mind when they determine the selling price of their output. Being sold on a market place, it...