The current world financial scene indicates at an intertwined and interdependent relationship between financial market activity and economic health. This book explains how the economic messages delivered by the dynamic evolution of financial asset returns are strongly related to option prices....

This book applies the multidisciplinary approaches of econometrics, statistics, finance and artificial intelligence for pricing and forecasting the carbon market in the context of managerial issues. It explores the related issues of pricing and forecasting the carbon market using theoretical...

1. Introduction to Emissions Trading -- 2. CO2 Price Fundamentals -- 3. Link With The Macroeconomy -- 4. The Clean Development Mechanism -- 5. Risk-Hedging Strategies And Portfolio Management -- 6. Advanced Topics: Time-To-Maturity and Modeling the Volatility of Carbon Prices -- Solutions -- Index