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Energy Policy 47 (2012) 468–477 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Energy Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/enpol The impact of the new wave of financial regulation for European energy markets Luuk Nijman n School of Public Policy, University College London, London, WC1H 9QU, UK H I G H L I G H T S c c c c c The European Commission has put forward a set of financial legislation to stabilize both financial markets and energy prices. This article assesses

Financial Derivatives Various Types and Pricing of Forward Contracts   Contents 1. Introduction.............................................................................................................................3 2.1 Futures...................................................................................................................................4 2.2 Options....................................................................................................................

2.1.3 Options There are two kinds of options in the market, European options and American options. The most common traded one is American options which can be exercised before maturity in the market. Call options provide the holders the right to buy the underlying assets at an exercise price while put options is the right to sell (Rad et al., 2015). Hedgers needs to pay a direct premium when the options open in order to compensate for the speculators. In this case, hedgers have a right to choose

What is a commodity? Commodity is term that every one of us has heard at one point or another in life. Commodity is a popular term thrown around in the financial industry, and was created five hundred years back somewhere in the 15th century in order to describe a financial benefit or profit. Today, commodities are considered as certain valuable goods that are produced in bulk and have certain uniform qualities across the board. According to Wikipedia the definition of a commodity is as; “The exact

Over the past hundred years, the topics of intertemporal price relationships and commodity storage have yielded a diverse range of research questions, and a number of interrelated, yet sometimes contradicting theories. This chapter gives a summary of the most influential theories on these subjects, and relates them to the thesis. The four main themes identified are the theory of normal backwardation, the theory of price of storage, the theory of competitive storage and the spatial-temporal interpretation

2.0 RISK MANAGEMENT ISSUES FROM ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY. Risk management is an important part of any business, before you manage a risk u must identified the risk involved in that business first. In electricity industry companies are exposure to higher risks today than the early part of the sector (European Union of the electricity industry, 2006). Exposures to regulatory and market risks, to be specific, have it increased notably which can lead to either negative or positive impact on profit limits

Kevin Cone and Madison Schaefer Professor Nutting Management 6 December 12, 2014 “An Analysis of Trading in Derivatives” 12 years ago, Warren Buffett warned that derivatives were “financial weapons of mass destruction” (Lenzner). 6 years after he made this statement, derivative traders helped induce the biggest financial crisis in America since the Great Depression. Derivatives are highly complex financial instruments that have fundamentally changed the way we perceive finance. Trading these derivatives

For examples this disparity may arise in fixed coupon rates. The company may be exposed to other risk, if it does not have an exact or close enough match for the risk being hedged. In realty these futures contract may not adequately hedge risk and this would lead increase in earnings volatility and the company may face greater risk (Banwait 2013). Increased risk for clearing house The margins on swap contract are calculated differently and are higher than futures contract which has

The Tables Have Turned “She’s out of control!” In the short story “The Cavemen in the Hedges” by Stacey Richter the narrator wants to hold onto the “good ole days” back when he and his girlfriend were punk rockers. He doesn’t want to commit by getting married with his long term girlfriend Kim. So therefore, Kim is acting different towards him. The narrator notices that Kim is spending more time in the basement, and he suspects that she is having an affair with a caveman. She isn’t wife material

Today, the economic state of our world is highly connected and international. The global market influences food accessibility and hunger on an exceedingly large scale. The global food economy exists within a complex system that has widespread dire consequences if it finds itself in a crisis like we are currently seeing. Until the year 2000, the world witnessed a thirty year trend of decreasing food prices. While it is common perception that the global food crisis is occurring due to shortages in