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market depth) or increase (due to more speculation) volatility. As the identification of these effects ultimately remains an … empirical question, we use daily data from April 2005 to April 2008 to document volatility behavior in the EU ETS. By … introduction of the option market had no effect on the volatility in the EU ETS. These finding are robust to other likely …
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A number of countries have recently responded to high and volatile commodity prices by setting up commodity funds. In several cases, these funds have proved effective in stabilising government spending and boosting savings, but on the whole they have unfortunately not achieved the hoped-for...
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This article focuses on the volatility of crude oil futures prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It aims at … examining whether this market creates excess volatility, which would not be observed in the absence of such a market. In order … process. We show that a significant part of the volatility recorded during exchange trading hours is caused by mispricing …
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Over the last three decades, the world economy has been facing stock market crashes, currency crisis, the dot-com and … reliable results, but remains difficult to interpret in the real world. This paper proposes a quantile regression to transform …
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The study of tail events has become a central preoccupation for academics, investors and policy makers, given the recent financial turmoil. However, the question on what differentiates a crash from a tail event remains unsolved. This article elaborates a new definition of stock market crash...
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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...
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It is common to assert, in the literature on commodity derivative markets, that the behavior of futures prices is characterized by the "Samuelson Hypothesis": there is a decreasing pattern of volatilities along the prices curve. Despite some debates about statistical measurements, this...
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This paper investigates how the introduction of an index security directly or indirectly impacts the underlying-index spot-futures pricing. Using intraday data for financial instruments related to the CAC 40 index, we do not find that the spot-futures price efficiency improvement observed after...
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, trading volume as well as trade imbalances in call and put options, and volatility are important in understanding why some …
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