This article is centred on the volatility of commodity prices. It presents the instruments offering a protection against volatility and shows how they can be employed. The first section exposes these derivative instruments. It distinguishes them in step with the need they respond and the way...

The thesis presents a construction of a grid that discretizes the threshold model introduced by Geman and Roncoroni (2006) for electricity spot prices, incorporating both mean reversion and jumps, the direction of the latter depending on the price of the underlying at the time of the jump. The...

Les marchés de matières premières sont marqués par deux principales tendances : la modification de leur organisation industrielle et leur financiarisation. Mais celles-ci s'intègrent elles-mêmes dans des bouleversements économiques, comme la mondialisation des échanges et la montée des...