Using the popular Schwartz 97 two-factor approach, we study future contracts written on fresh farmed salmon, which have been actively traded at the Fish Pool Market in Norway since 2006. This approach features a stochastic convenience yield for the salmon spot price. We connect this approach...

We study the hedging problem for European-style options written on crude-oil futures. Locally risk-minimizing hedging strategies are derived under the assumption that the dynamics of crude-oil futures are described by a Merton-type jump-diffusion. These are then tested empirically using...

We consider the problem of hedging European options written on natural gas futures, in a market where prices of traded assets exhibit jumps, by trading in the underlying asset. We provide a general expression for the hedging strategy which minimizes the variance of the terminal hedging error, in...