This article investigates comovement and contagions in the commodities markets. We examine the comovement by analyzing the unconditional correlation coefficients. We document that commodities tend to partially integrate. We perform contagion tests by identifying coexceedances and estimating...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Risikofaktoren und Risikoprämien in Rohstoffmärkten und beinhaltet vier empirische Studien. Die ersten zwei Studien konzentrieren sich dabei auf Risikoprämien von verbundenen Terminmärkten für Elektrizität in Australien. In der dritten Studie wird ein...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate whether the best statistical model also corresponds to the best empirical performance in the volatility modeling of financialized commodity markets. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use various p and q values in Value-at-Risk (VaR) GARCH(p, q)...

Purpose: This paper offers an alternative approach to assessing contagions in price and load in the Australian interconnected power markets. This approach enabled us to identify a high-risk region and assess the direction of contagions from both buyers' and sellers' perspectives....

We provide an empirical analysis of the relationship between spot and futures prices in interconnected regional Australian electricity markets. Examining ex-post risk premiums in futures markets, we find positive and significant risk premiums for several of the considered regions. Therefore,...