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We study how the exposure of fundamental and financial traders affects the futures curve of WTI oil and the market … integration between WTI and Brent as measured by their price spread. To obtain a parsimonious representation of the futures curve … sub-periods of a sharp WTI-price rise as well as a diverging Brent-WTI-spread. Our contribution is threefold: First, we …
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of the growth of the Brazilian winter corn crop on the dynamics between domestic Brazilian prices and international prices as well as spot and futures prices in Brazil. Econometric time-series methods tests were applied using Brazilian spot and...
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Arbitrage and liquidity are interrelated. Liquidity facilitates arbitrageurs’ trading on deviations from the law of one price. However, whether arbitrage opportunity leads to an increase or decrease in liquidity depends on the cause of the deviation. A demand shock leads to greater liquidity,...
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This paper analyzes the convergence process of Central-West European wholesale electricity markets from 2004 to the beginning of 2011. Jevon's law of price indifference is scrutinized using price correlation, parametric and nonparametric tests of price-differences and cointegration analysis. As...
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Die EU wollte den europäischen Energiebinnenmarkt noch im Jahr 2014 vollenden. Doch dürfte dieses Ziel deutlich verfehlt werden. Die Energiemärkte der Mitgliedstaaten bleiben insbesondere wegen unterschiedlicher mitgliedstaatlicher Regulierungseingriffe sehr heterogen. Für eine stärkere...
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In this paper, we review and use different methods to measure and compare efficiency scores in energy producing plants. In particular, we use non-parametric and parametric techniques. We focus our attention in electricity producing power plants on eighteen European countries, as well as in...
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We construct variance risk premiums for the nine major emerging markets of Brazil, China, India, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Africa, and Taiwan from 2000 to 2017 using the sample-extension methodology in Lynch and Wachter (2013). Both the emerging market and developed market...
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We investigate the integration of oil spot and futures markets using matched, intraday data to avoid non-synchronous trading issues. Our evidence indicates highly integrated spot and futures markets. Economic shocks that arise in spot markets are quickly transmitted to the futures markets...
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