We investigate the relationship between volatility and volume in five energy commodity futures contracts traded at the NYMEX for the period 1992 to 2006. We find that conditional volatility shows a high response to large information shocks and exhibits a great sensitivity to total expected and...

This paper develops an empirical cost of carry model for pricing crude oil futures by introducing an exogenously conditioned convenience yield as well as stochastic volatility. The approach is tested using monthly prices of all light crude oil futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile...

We investigate the relation between volatility and volume in 22 developed markets and 27 emerging markets. Compared to developed markets, emerging markets show a greater response to large information shocks and exhibit greater sensitivity to unexpected volume. We find a negative relation between...