Introduction -- Arbitrage Trading in Energy Market and Risk Measurement -- Fuel Markets Connectedness and Fuel Portfolio Risk -- Hedging Strategy with Futures Contracts -- Investing in a portfolio consisting of energies and related commodities.

Energy futures have become important as alternative investment assets to minimize the volatility of portfolio return, owing to their low links with traditional financial markets. In order to make energy futures markets grow further, it is necessary to expand expectations of returns from trading...

This study examines whether the spot prices in the Japan Electric Power Exchange are efficiently formed from April 3, 2006, to March 31, 2012, using the conventional and rank-based variance-ratio tests. The results seem to reject the efficient market hypothesis in the market. Moreover, by...

This study tested for Granger causality among international market prices of coffee beans, import prices, retail prices, and other luxury beverage retail prices in Japan. Granger causality was found from the international market price series to the import price series. This indicates that Japan...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the paper examines the risk transmission between crude oil and petroleum product prices of Japan’s oil futures market. Second, it compares the performance of two tests for Granger causality using realized variance (RV) and the exponential...

Energy futures have become important as alternative investment assets to minimize the volatility of portfolio return, owing to their low links with traditional financial markets. In order to make energy futures markets grow further, it is necessary to expand expectations of returns from trading...

This paper examines the residential demand for electricity in Japan, excluding Okinawa-prefecture, from 1975 to 2005 as a function of the disposable income per household and the overall unit price of electricity for general consumers, by using the empirical panel analysis techniques of a panel...