This paper analyses the impact of global economic activity and international crude oil prices on natural gas import prices in three major natural gas markets using the panel co-integration model. It also investigates the shock impacts of the volatility and the increase and decrease of oil prices...

This paper analyzes the evolution characteristics of the international natural gas trade structure and the integration of the international natural gas market by using complex network theory. It is found that both the LNG and pipeline gas import and export trade networks display scale-free...

If commercial producers or financial investors use futures contracts to hedge against commodity price risk, the arbitrageurs who take the other side of the contracts may receive compensation for their assumption of nondiversifiable risk in the form of positive expected returns from their...

If commercial producers or financial investors use futures contracts to hedge against commodity price risk, the arbitrageurs who take the other side of the contracts may receive compensation for their assumption of non-diversifiable risk in the form of positive expected returns from their...