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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 … decrease the rate at which prices change, yet they impair the risk sharing function and they decrease market liquidity in …
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Commodity derivatives were introduced in India with a dual purpose of promoting price discovery and enhancing risk …
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This paper evaluates the predictability of WTI light sweet crude oil futures by using the variance risk premium, i …-specific influences. The results indicate that the explanatory power of the (negative) variance risk premium on oil excess returns is …
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This paper is the first to discuss the design of futures hedging strategies in European natural gas markets (NBP, TTF … reduction obtained by strategies in which hedging ratios are estimated with linear regressions. Seasonal hedging strategies … that hedging effectiveness is much higher when the seasonal pattern in spot price changes is approximated with lagged …
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This paper evaluates how different types of speculation affect the volatility of commodities' futures prices. We adopt four indexes of speculation: Working's T, the market share of non-commercial traders, the percentage of net long speculators over total open interest in future markets, which...
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This study investigates the effects of oil price shocks on volatility of selected agricultural and metal commodities. To achieve this goal, we decompose an oil price shock to its underlying components, including macroeconomics and oil specific shocks. The applied methodology is the structural...
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Trading in commodity derivatives on exchange platforms is an instrument to achieve price discovery, better price risk …
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We estimate dynamic conditional correlations between 10 commodities futures returns in energy, metals and agriculture markets over the period 1998-2014 with a DCC-GARCH model. We look at the factors influencing those correlations, adopting a pooled mean group (PMG) estimator. Macroeconomic...
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