In 2008, first suspicions arose that the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) had been systematically manipulated by financial institutions involved with its fixing; in June 2012, several major international banks officially admitted to this. The regulatory response could not have been...

The lead-lag relationship in both returns and volatilities between spot and futures markets has been investigated extensively in the financial economics literature. Only a limited number of such studies have appeared on forward markets, primarily due to the lack of easy access to empirical data....

We analyze the risk premium on electricity forward contracts traded for the Nordic and German/Austrian electricity markets. We argue that finding risk premiums by analyzing overnight returns is more relevant than the frequently used ex post approach. The derivatives in these markets can be...

This study examines whether VIX futures prices are unbiased and efficient predictors of the VIX index. The particular empirical analysis differs from the usually applied tests in that it uses a panel estimation approach. Panel regression has several advantages as it offers more flexibility in...

As the world's largest importer, trading of iron ore occupies a pivotal position in China's international trade. In order to seek the decision power of deciding the price for iron ore, China's Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) listed iron ore futures in October 2013,which has become the world's...