Bernoth, Kerstin; Hagen, Jürgen von; Vries, Casper G. de - 2020
The use of futures exchange contracts instead of forwards completes the maturity spectrum of the correlation between … of the futures contract and the choice of sampling period. The FFP appears to be a pre-crisis phenomenon and is only … observed for maturities longer than about one month. When examining whether the observed excess returns of futures contracts …