This study tests for calendar anomalies in returns for petroleum and petroleum products via the futures market, specifically, the day-of-the-week (DOW) effect. The energy future contracts in this study are the WTI (West Texas Intermediate), Brent, RBOB (Reformulated Blendstock for Oxygenate...

Target Date Funds (TDFs) have become the default investment choice in retirement accounts for most households. Later-dated TDFs (e.g., further away from the present day) allocate a more significant percentage of each dollar invested into equities relative to fixed income. As the TDF moves closer...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the implications of governance quality on a firm’s information environment in the context of voluntary changes in hedging disclosures made by oil and gas companies. Design/methodology/approach: The research utilizes a Factiva-guided search to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the overlooked relationship between politics and the performance of anomaly-based investment strategies. Design/methodology/approach: Monthly long-short portfolios are formed based on relative mispricing scores according to the Stambaugh et al....

We review and synthesize the empirical evidence on several factors related to petroleum product prices: (1) the general distributional characteristics of petroleum product prices; (2) the influence of refinery outages, extreme weather, and similar circumstances on product prices; (3) the way...

We review a large body of the empirical literature focusing on the relation between petroleum product prices and oil prices and discuss the evidence on the direction of causality between crude oil prices and petroleum product prices. In addition, we survey the literature on the much-debated...

Accusations of price manipulation in the silver and gold markets have emerged in recent years. In an effort to increase transparency, the London spot price “fixing” mechanism was recently changed from an opaque negotiation process among a small number of dealer banks to a more observable...

Target Date Funds (TDFs) have become the default investment choice in retirement accounts for most households. Later-dated TDFs (e.g., further away from the present day) allocate a more significant percentage of each dollar invested into equities relative to fixed income. As the TDF moves closer...