This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from...

Rohstoffmärkte im Überblick -- Rohstoffmärkte im Rahmen globaler Trends -- Rohstoffindizes -- Der europäische Energiemarkt -- Rohstoffe und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung -- Risiko- und Treasurymanagement von Rohstoffen -- Anforderungen an das Risikomanagement und Risikocontrolling -- Produkte...

Commodity markets present several challenges for quantitative modeling. These include high volatilities, small sample data sets, and physical, operational complexity. In addition, the set of traded products in commodity markets is more limited than in financial or equity markets, making value...

This book offers practical knowledge, analysis, trading techniques and methodologies required for the management of key international commodities. The author explores each aspect of commodity trading in detail and helps the reader to implement effective techniques to build a strong portfolio....

This is a valuable, quantitative guide to the technicalities of optimization methodologies in gas and power markets, and will be of interest to practitioners in the energy industry and financial sector who work in trading, quantitative analysis and energy risk modeling

Empirical Analysis of Statistical Commodity Price Properties -- Stochastic Volatility, Jump Diffusion, and Lévy Processes -- Real Options Valuation Using Monte Carlo Simulation and the Longstaff-Schwartz Method.

This book takes a fresh look at pricing, product differentiation and the need for decommoditisation in market sectors where products and services are standardised and interchangeable. In the first chapters the book explains what commodities are, and puts them into a historical perspective to...

Die Energiewende, der industrieübergreifende Rohstoffwandel von fossilen zu nachwachsenden Rohstoffen und die aktuellen Entwicklungen an den Rohstoffmärkten geben Anlass, Rohstoffpreise als marktbasierte Einflussfaktoren auf die Diffusion Erneuerbarer Energietechnologien zu untersuchen. Im...

The recent economic developments have strongly increased the interest in altering raw material prices and especially in the protection from volatile and increasing prices. Jan Arnold integrates financial and operational aspects into a holistic approach to commodity procurement. He shows how to...