Sökning: "Commodity futures contracts"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 uppsatser innehållade orden Commodity futures contracts.

  1. 1. Hedging the Term Structure Risk of Carbon Allowance Derivatives : An Application of Stochastic Optimisation to EUA Market Making

    Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Produktionsekonomi

    Författare :Nikolas Tsigkas; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Commodity Derivatives; Emissions Trading; Term Structure; Nonparametric Curve Estimation; Hedging; Stochastic Optimisation; Monte Carlosimulation; Market Microstructre; Systematic Risk Factors;

    Sammanfattning : The initiative by the EU to combat global warming through the introduction of a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, known as the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), resulted in the inception of a new financial market. The right to emit one tonne of CO2-equivalents, as well as derivatives on this right, have become commodities, traded both through exchanges and over the counter. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Dependence Structures between Commodity Futures and Corresponding Producer Indices across Varying Market Conditions : A cross-quantilogram approach

    Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Nationalekonomi

    Författare :Elin Borg; Ilya Kits; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Commodity futures contracts; Commodity producer index; Cross-quantilogram; Dependence structures; Spillovers; Tail dependence;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the dependence structures between commodity futures and corresponding commodity producer equity indices in bearish, bullish and normal market conditions. We study commodity futures and producer indices in the energy, precious metals, gold and agriculture commodity markets using daily return data that ranges from 16 December 2005 to 28 June 2019. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Volatility of copper prices and the effect of real interest rate changes : does the theory of storage explain the volatility of copper spot and futures prices?

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Författare :Moa Duvhammar; [2018]
    Nyckelord :theory of storage; copper price volatility; futures curve; conditional variance; GARCH;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to determine if the predictions of the theory of storage can explain the volatility of copper prices during the past two decades. The theory predicts that decreasing interest rates should reduce the volatility of commodity prices by encouraging the smoothing of short-run price swings caused by temporary shocks to supply and demand. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Evaluating the Risk Premium in the Cross-Section of Commodity Futures

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Oliwer Berglund; Martin Rabe Gundersen; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Commodity Futures; Risk Premium; Asset Pricing Models; Fama-MacBeth; Specific Factors.; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Departing from the increased interest in and beneficial characteristics of investments in commodity futures evident in the literature. This paper evaluates the existence of factors that may explain the cross-section of commodity futures through macro, equity and commodity specific factors. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Parametric Value-at-Risk in Leptokurtic Distributions

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Författare :Lulu Valevie; Patrik Essunger; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Value-at-Risk; Leptokurtic; Student s t-distribution; Currencies; Commodities;

    Sammanfattning : Value-at-risk offers a quick estimate of the market risk exposure inherent in an asset or portfolio. A wide range of value-at-risk methods exist, which differ slightly in the estimation procedures and their assumptions. LÄS MER