This article is concerned with the hedging effectiveness of futures contracts whose underlying asset is an index, when the structure of this index is changing. The case of the freight futures (BIFFEX) contract is examined here. Investigation of this issue is particularly interesting as the...

This article investigates the unbiasedness hypothesis of futures prices in the freight futures market. Being the only market whose underlying asset is a service, it sets it apart from other markets investigated so far in the literature. Cointegration techniques, employed to examine this...

This paper examines volatility as a measure of risk in the dry-bulk ship market. In particular, it compares volatility estimates between time-charter and spot rates. Volatility is also compared between different sizes of dry-bulk vessels. It is found that time-charters are more volatile than...

The focus of this paper is the review the empirical work in the area of shipping finance, which deals with the companies in the shipping sector that have made the decision to resort to the capital markets in order to finance their activities. The paper is concerned with the performance of listed...