commodities and biofuel helps commodity suppliers hedge their portfolios, and manage the risk and co-risk of their biofuel and … should be considered as viable futures products in financial portfolios for risk management. …

the insurance sector. The downside risk of insurers is explicitly modelled by common and idiosyncratic risk factors. Since … reinsurance is important for the capacity of insurers, we measure risk dependence among European insurers and reinsurers. The … results point to a relatively low insurance sector wide risk. Dependence among insurers is higher than among reinsurers. …