Fundamentals of commodity spot and futures markets -- Equilibrium relationships between spot prices and forward prices -- Stochastic modelling of commodity price processes -- Plain-vanilla option pricing and hedging -- Risk-neutral valuation of plain-vanilla options -- Monte-Carlo simulations...

This study investigates the price volatility of metals, using the GARCH and GJR models. First we examine the persistence of volatility and the leverage effect across metal markets taking into account the presence of outliers, and second we estimate the effects of oil price shocks on the price...