Commodity markets present several challenges for quantitative modeling. These include high volatilities, small sample data sets, and physical, operational complexity. In addition, the set of traded products in commodity markets is more limited than in financial or equity markets, making value...

This paper investigates price jumps in commodity markets. We find that jumps are rare and extreme events but occur less frequently than in stock markets. Nonetheless, jump correlations across commodities can be high depending on the commodity sectors. Energy, metal and grains commodities show...

Derivatives that manage commodity risk over multiple periods are not Sharīʿah-compliant. This study proposes a Sharīʿah-compliant swaption model (waʿd or promise on swap) for hedging commodity risk. The model combines two separate and independent waʿds (promises) on commodity swap through...