Cross market linkages and spillover effects between Forward Freight Agreements (FFAs) and futures contracts on the commodities transported by Panamax vessels can aid decision making in the very volatile freight markets. Results indicate that there are significant spillover effects between...

The current paper investigates the unbiasedness hypothesis of Forward Freight Agreement (FFA) prices in the freight over-the-counter (OTC) forward market trades. Cointegration techniques are employed to examine the hypothesis. The results indicate that: FFA prices one and two months before...

This paper examines the hedging effectiveness of the FTSE/ATHEX-20 and FTSE/ATHEX Mid-40 stock index futures contracts in the relatively new and fairly unresearched futures market of Greece. Both in-sample and out-of-sample hedging performances using weekly and daily data are examined,...

This paper investigates the short-run forecasting performance, in the relatively new and fairly unresearched futures market of Greece. Forecasts from univariate (ARIMA) and multivariate (VAR, VECM and SURE-VECM) linear time-series models indicate that cash returns can be more accurately...

"This paper investigates the lead-lag relationship in daily returns and volatilities between price movements of the FTSE/ATHEX-20 and FTSE/ATHEX Mid-40 stock index futures and the underlying cash indices in the relatively new futures market of Greece. Empirical results show that there is a...