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Based on two strands of theoretical research, this paper provides new evidence on how fares are jointly affected by in-flight seat availability and purchasing date. As capacity-driven theories predict, it emerges that fares monotonically and substantially increase with the flights occupancy...
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For over a decade, academic and industry economists argued that the negative correlation between returns on stocks and commodity futures was evidence that institutional investors should add commodity futures index funds as an asset class in their portfolio management strategies. Does this...
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This paper assesses the extent to which a country s external capital structure can aid in mitigating the macroeconomic impact of oil price shocks. Two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks are considered: an oil importer (Jamaica) and an oil exporter (Trinidad and Tobago)....
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In light of the recently passed 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, we assess the effect of margin changes on prices, the risk-sharing between speculators and hedgers, and the price stability of 20 commodity futures markets. We find that margin increases decrease the rate at which prices change, yet they...
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This paper is the first to discuss the design of futures hedging strategies in European natural gas markets (NBP, TTF … that hedging effectiveness is much higher when the seasonal pattern in spot price changes is approximated with lagged … months) hedging periods. Furthermore, volatility of weekly price changes also has a seasonal pattern and is higher in winter …
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