We develop an accurate valuation setup for freight options, featuring an exponential mean-reverting model for the freight rate with distinct reversion scales for its jump and diffusion components. We calibrate to Baltic option prices and analyze the freight rate dynamics. More specifically, we...

This paper reproduces the performance of two international shipping stock indexes and two physical shipping indexes by investing only in stock portfolios that our algorithms determine. In our analysis, we use daily stock data and address the index-tracking problem with the differential evolution...

The availability of shipping freight contracts with different duration offers shipowners, operators, and charterers the choice to trade risk and return according to the characteristics that each of these contracts offers on the utility frontier. The aim of this paper is to investigate the...