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Cross-commodity analysis and applications to risk management

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economía de la Empresaes
dc.contributor.authorBörger, Reik
dc.contributor.authorCartea, Álvaro
dc.contributor.authorKiesel, Rüdiger
dc.contributor.authorSchindlmayr, Gero
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-22T15:29:32Z
dc.date.available2011-09-22T15:29:32Z
dc.date.issued2009-03
dc.description.abstractThe understanding of joint asset return distributions is an important ingredient for managing risks of portfolios. Although this is a well-discussed issue in fixed income and equity markets, it is a challenge for energy commodities. In this study we are concerned with describing the joint return distribution of energy-related commodities futures, namely power, oil, gas, coal, and carbon. The objective of the study is threefold. First, we conduct a careful analysis of empirical returns and show how the class of multivariate generalized hyperbolic distributions performs in this context. Second, we present how risk measures can be computed for commodity portfolios based on generalized hyperbolic assumptions. And finally,we discuss the implications of our findings for risk management analyzing the exposure of power plants, which represent typical energy portfolios. Our main findings are that risk estimates based on a normal distribution in the context of energy commodities can be statistically improved using generalized hyperbolic distributions. Those distributions are flexible enough to incorporate many characteristics of commodity returns and yield more accurate risk estimates. Our analysis of the market suggests that carbon allowances can be a helpful tool for controlling the risk exposure of a typical energy portfolio representing a power plant
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationThe Journal of Futures Markets, 2009, v. 29, n. 3, pp. 197-217
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/fut.20359
dc.identifier.issn0270-7314
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage197
dc.identifier.publicationissue3
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage217
dc.identifier.publicationtitleThe Journal of Futures Markets
dc.identifier.publicationvolume29
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/12155
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://hdl.handle.net/10016/12080
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fut.20359
dc.rights©Wiley-Blackwell
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.ecienciaEmpresa
dc.subject.otherCommodities
dc.subject.otherRisk
dc.titleCross-commodity analysis and applications to risk management
dc.typeresearch article*
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