To assess the economic determinants of oil futures volatility, we firstly develop and estimate a multi-factor oil futures pricing model with stochastic volatility that is able to disentangle long-term, medium-term and short-term variations in commodity markets volatility. The volatility...

This paper presents a simulation study of hedging long-dated futures options, in the Rabinovitch (1989) model which assumes correlated dynamics between spot asset prices and interest rates. Under this model and when the maturity of the hedging instruments match the maturity of the option,...

This paper presents an empirical study on hedging long-dated crude oil futures options with forward price models incorporating stochastic interest rates and stochastic volatility. Several hedging schemes are considered including delta, gamma, vega and interest rate hedge. Factor hedging is...

Is climate transition risk factored into sovereign bond markets? We find that carbon dioxide emissions, natural resources rents, and renewable energy consumption, as measures of transition risk, significantly impact yields and spreads. Countries with lower carbon emissions incur a lower...

This paper introduces DivFolio, a multi-period portfolio selection and analytic software application that incorporates automated and user-determined divestment practices accommodating Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and portfolio carbon footprint considerations. This freely available...

Part I The Fundamentals of Derivative Security Pricing -- 1 The Stock Option Problem -- 2 Stochastic Processes for Asset Price Modelling -- 3 An Initial Attempt at Pricing an Option -- 4 The Stochastic Differential Equation -- 5 Manipulating Stochastic Differential Equations and Stochastic...

This paper evaluates the role of hedgers and speculators as liquidity providers in oil markets and analyses the effects of these liquidity provision channels on weekly volatility. Using two measures of hedging pressure that capture liquidity provision by speculators and hedgers, we find that...

Mechanisms to incentivize divestment strategies, such as divestment schedules, are an important component of carbon reduction strategies. We find that the risk/return profile of divested S&P 500 portfolios is typically indifferent to divestment schedules, but instantaneous divestment benefits...

Mechanisms to develop divestment strategies are an essential component of carbon reduction strategies. The rate at which investors should divest has become a critical aspect of effective divestment, which has shifted from the periphery to a movement of over a thousand major investors, totaling...

The Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) is an energy-only zonal instance of the integrated pool model without a day-ahead market where a security-constrained economic-dispatch (SCED) engine controls dispatch and sets the price every 5 minutes. After a brief overview of pool markets...