This study explores the financialization of agricultural commodities, focusing on how financial derivatives and index funds impact the volatility of agro-food markets. Using a Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) GARCH model, we analyze volatility spillovers among key agricultural commodities,...

Over the past two decades, the Black Sea region has exhibited significantly growing wheat production and exports. In 2017/18, Russia ultimately became the world’s largest wheat exporter, a position that was held by the USA for decades. Mostly serving destination markets in the Middle East and...

Part I: Fundamentals and Pricing of Options and Futures -- Chapter 1. Fundamentals of options -- Chapter 2. The Black-Scholes model incl. the Greeks -- Chapter 3. Fundamentals and pricing of futures -- Part II: Option strategies -- Chapter 4. Basic strategies with options and bullish option...

Hedging being a predominant financial concern, is considered as a robust method of managing investment risks. Literature evinces that the covered call strategy provides nominal returns alongside effective hedging. However, studies have not compared the hedging effectiveness of covered call,...

Um es gleich vorweg zu nehmen, Warenterminmärkte dienen Landwirten und Landhändlern keineswegs, wie gemeinhin angenommen, primär zur Absicherung von Kassapreis- und Basisrisiko. Sie eröffnen vielmehr Einkommenschancen durch Lagerhaltung und gewährleisten deren Profitabilität. Die in der...

Foreign currency derivative markets are among the largest in the world, yet their role in emerging markets is relatively understudied. We study firms' currency risk exposure and their hedging choices by employing a unique dataset covering the universe of FX derivatives transactions in Chile...

In this paper, we demonstrate how a well-established machine learning-based statistical arbitrage strategy can be successfully transferred from equity to futures markets. First, we preprocess futures time series comprised of front months to render them suitable for our returns-based trading...

Um es gleich vorweg zu nehmen, Warenterminmärkte dienen Landwirten und Landhändlern keineswegs, wie gemeinhin angenommen, primär zur Absicherung von Kassapreis- und Basisrisiko. Sie eröffnen vielmehr Einkommenschancen durch Lagerhaltung und gewährleisten deren Profitabilität. Die in der...

"This book is designed for beginners who possess no previous knowledge or familiarity with derivatives. Written in an easy to read style, it guides readers through the challenging and complex world of forwards, futures, options, and swaps. The emphasis on Asian markets and contracts enables...

We generalize the results of Bielecki and Rutkowski (2015) on funding and collateralization to a multi-currency framework and link their results with those of Piterbarg (2012), Moreni and Pallavicini (2017), and Fuji et al (2010).In doing this, we provide a complete study of absence of arbitrage...

The benefits of smoothing demand peaks in the electricity market has been widely recognised. European countries such Spain and some of the Scandinavian countries have recently given to the consumers the possibility to face the spot prices instead of having a fixed tariffs determined by...

During the market turmoil, and later in the year 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) decided to discontinue the trading in single stock futures (SSFs) at the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). On 27th July 2009, trading in SSFs were re-launched in those stocks which passed...

In diesem Buch wird das Thema Derivate neu gedacht. Dies geschieht aus der Perspektive des Financial Modeling, wobei die zentralen Fragestellungen aus der Finanzwirtschaft unter Zuhilfenahme von Microsoft Excel holistisch abgebildet und gelöst werden. Leitfaden bildet dabei eine integrierte...

The benefits of smoothing demand peaks in the electricity market has been widely recognised. European countries such as Spain and some of the Scandinavian countries have recently given to the consumers the possibility to face the spot prices instead of having a fixed tariffs determined by...

The benefits of smoothing demand peaks in the electricity market has been widely recognised. European countries such Spain and some of the Scandinavian countries have recently given to the consumers the possibility to face the spot prices instead of having a fixed tariffs determined by...

We study intraday market intermediation in an electronic market before and during a period of large and temporary selling pressure. On May 6, 2010, U.S. financial markets experienced a systemic intraday event - the Flash Crash - where a large automated selling program was rapidly executed in the...

I study a contracting innovation that suddenly insulated traders of hedging contracts against counterparty risk: central clearing counterparties (CCPs) for derivatives. The first CCP was created in Le Havre (France) in 1882, in the coffee futures market. Using triple difference-in-differences...

The study attempts to examine if there is any shift in the price discovery behavior of spot and futures markets between pre-crisis period and post-crisis period. All those stocks which are available for trading in futures segment since the launch of futures trading on November 9, 2001 to...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Development of India’s Commodity Futures Markets -- Chapter 3: Literature on Farmers’ Participation in Futures -- Chapter 4: Futures Market Efficiency in Price Discovery and Dissemination -- Chapter 5: Field Survey, Observation and Farmer Profile --...

The CME vulnerability : the best practice and the impact of negative oil futures trading price -- Why oil prices plunged and settled negative -- Meet the challenge with negative price and management in practice.