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This paper examines whether the proliferation of new index products, such as commodity-tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs), amplified the volatility transmission channel introduced by financialization. This paper focuses on the volatility spillover effects among crude oil, metals, agriculture,...
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The aim of this study is to test the ability of the yield curve on US government bonds to forecast the future evolution in the prices of commodities often used in as raw materials. We consider the monthly prices of nine commodities for more than 30 years. Our findings, confirmed by several...
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This paper examines the connectedness between Bitcoin and commodity volatilities, including oil, wheat, and corn, during the period Oct. 2013-Jun. 2018, using time- and frequency-domain frameworks. The time-domain framework's results show that the connectedness is 23.49%, indicating a low level...
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European claim. This allows pricing and hedging under the minimal martingale measure, corresponding to the local risk … pricing and hedging formulae for put and call options are derived in terms of the Black–Scholes formula. Due to market … an approximate hedging formula, which does not require knowledge of these parameters. The hedging strategies are tested …
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Threshold cointegration is introduced as an econometric technique to model the impact of trade disruptions on spatial price transmission in commodity markets so that market participants and policy makers can understand the global impact of trade disruptions on prices. The threshold cointegration...
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Currency crises are a significant feature of the present-day world economy, in which financial transactions are many times larger than monetary flows in the "real economy", so that defending a currency's exchange-rate is a major challenge for the governments of countries which may be smaller...
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Since the collapse of the Metallgesellschaft AG due to hedging losses in 1993, energy practitioners have been concerned … hedging long-dated futures and options with their short-dated counterparts, we find that the long-term tracking errors are, on …
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We explore optimal hedge ratios and hedging effectiveness for the German electricity market. Given the increasing … in order to account for risk reduction through hedging. Results allow us to conclude that: dynamic hedging strategies … provide higher variance reductions in terms of hedging effectiveness; there is poor correlation among spot and futures, not …
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of numerical methods for pricing, hedging, and risk management of financial instruments. …
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Unlike delta-hedging or similar methods based on Greeks, global hedging is an approach that optimizes some terminal … criterion that depends on the difference between the value of a derivative security and that of its hedging portfolio at … maturity or exercise. Global hedging methods in discrete time can be implemented using dynamic programming. They provide …
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