{"title":"Risk Premiums in Interconnected Australian Electricity Futures Markets","authors":"Rangga Handika, S. Trück","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2279945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2279945","url":null,"abstract":"We provide an empirical analysis of the relationship between spot and futures prices in interconnected regional Australian electricity markets. Examining ex-post risk premiums in futures markets, we find positive and significant risk premiums for several of the considered regions. Therefore, electricity futures prices cannot be considered as an unbiased estimator of the average realized spot price during the delivery period. Market participants are willing to pay a significant additional compensation to get rid of the exposure to price shocks and spikes in the spot market. We further demonstrate seasonal effects in the observed premiums as well as strong and positive correlations between the observed risk premiums across the considered markets. Overall, the observed premiums indicate risk aversion of market participants, in the Queensland and Victoria electricity market. We also relate realized premiums to variables such as spot price levels, volatility, skewness and kurtosis prior to the delivery period. Due to the high correlation of the observed premiums across the regions, we apply a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) approach. We find that in particular spot price levels, but also skewness and kurtosis of spot prices contribute significantly to the explanation of realized risk premiums.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116476985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fundamentals Versus Speculation: What Really Drives Spillovers and Informed Trading in Futures and Spot Markets of Refined Petroleum Products?","authors":"G. Ngene, Peter Tauchner","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2276540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2276540","url":null,"abstract":"In commodities market, the theory of storage suggests that the basis or spread varies with changes in fundamental supply and demand factors. We thus expect these fundamentals, as opposed to speculative trading, to be the primary triggers of volatility in the spot market. Because of structural and functional differences in spot and futures markets, production adjustment cost, sign and sign of the basis, we expect nonlinear price convergence mechanism and time varying volatility. We employ nonlinear and asymmetric error correction model with time-varying volatility to characterize the spot and futures price dynamics of gasoline and heating oil. We show that there is unidirectional and time-varying volatility spillover from futures to spot market since informed trading occurs in the futures markets. We find that error correction process is essentially asymmetric, non-linear, and volatility inducing. The basis account for more than 92% of total volatility suggesting that it is the fundamentals and not speculative trading that drive volatility and spillovers. Moreover, futures prices converge to equilibrium relationship when the basis is positive due to absence of production adjustment costs. We can thus make inference that conventional methodologies that disregard these convolutions in the study of time series dynamics of variables that exhibit mutual stochastic trend may be mis-specified. Our results are robust under different regimes.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131371355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Microeconomic Framework for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Rebound and Some Implications","authors":"S. Borenstein","doi":"10.3386/W19044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/W19044","url":null,"abstract":"Improving the efficiency with which we use energy is often said to be the most cost-effective way to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, such improvements usually lower the cost of using energy-intensive goods and may create wealth from the energy savings, both of which lead to increased energy use, a \"rebound'' effect. Disagreements about the magnitude of energy efficiency rebound are immense and play a central role in debates over the role energy efficiency can play in combating climate change. But these differing views seem to stem as much from the lack of a common framework for the analysis as from different estimates of key parameters. I present a theoretical framework that parses rebound into economic income and substitution effects. The framework captures the wide range of rebound effects that have been termed direct, indirect, re-spending, and transformational rebound, among others. It does not capture economy-wide impacts, such as the potential for a macroeconomic multiplier or the impact on energy prices, which I discuss separately. I then explore the implications of this framework for measurement of rebound, examining rebound from improved auto fuel economy and lighting efficiency. The illustrative calculations I carry out suggest that rebound that more than offsets the savings from energy efficiency investments (known as \"backfire\") is unlikely, but rebound is likely to significantly reduce the net savings from at least these energy efficiency improvements.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123344845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hotelling Valuation Principle: Evidence from the Six Super Majors","authors":"Guillaume Dimitris Galanos","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2168621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2168621","url":null,"abstract":"This paper applies the Hotelling Valuation Principle developed by Miller and Upton to the six super majors, multinational oil companies and extends their model by adding an explanatory variable as in world oil and gas inventory. The results do not support the Hotelling Valuation Principle and in fact the study finds that the in ground reserves of the six super majors are worth about twice as less as these same reserves once extracted. In addition, it is found that world stock effect has a significant impact on the value of oil and gas reserves and provides additional explanatory power to the Hotelling Valuation Principle.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126207482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Analysis of the Main Determinants of Electricity Forward Prices and Forward Risk Premia","authors":"Á. Cartea, Pablo Villaplana","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2142590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2142590","url":null,"abstract":"The liberalisation of energy markets entails the appearance of market risks which must be borne by market participants: producers, retailers and final consumers. Some of these risks can be managed by participating in the forward markets and transferring it to other agents who are willing to bear it and command a compensation for it. Thus, forward prices are made up of two components: the expected spot price at a future date and the forward risk premium. In this chapter we analyse the factors influencing the evolution of electricity forward prices in Spain. These factors include the forward prices for natural gas and CO2 emission rights, as well as the electricity forward prices in Germany and in France and spot prices in Spain. We also analyse the behaviour of the ex-post electricity forward risk premia in Germany, France and Spain, and in particular we find a positive correlation between ex-post electricity risk premia in these three countries as well as between risk premia for electricity and natural gas futures prices.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133757545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multivariate Volatility Modeling of Electricity Futures: Online Appendix","authors":"L. Bauwens, C. Hafner, Diane Pierret","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2965511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2965511","url":null,"abstract":"Online Appendix to \"MULTIVARIATE VOLATILITY MODELING OF ELECTRICITY FUTURES\". \u0000 \u0000Full paper available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2965508","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130270214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Spanish Gas and Electricity Sector: Regulation, Markets and Environmental Policies","authors":"G. Federico","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2883869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2883869","url":null,"abstract":"The European and Spanish gas and electricity markets are characterised by major policy challenges due to the complex and strategic nature of these markets. Public policy issues that are at stake in these markets include the challenge of introducing effective competition and regulation to ensure that market outcomes are competitive and the European market is successfully integrated; the need to manage the high levels of dependency of European energy markets on external sources of input (especially gas); and the difficulties posed by the transition to a more sustainable model in line with current European and global environmental objectives. This report seeks to contribute to the analysis of some of these issues, with specific attention paid to the competitive segments of the Spanish gas and electricity markets (i.e. gas procurement, electricity generation and the respective retail markets), and special emphasis placed on environmental issues.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128961513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dynamics of Hourly Electricity Prices","authors":"W. Härdle, S. Trück","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2894267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2894267","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamics of hourly electricity prices in day-ahead markets is an important element of competitive power markets that were only established in the last decade. In electricity markets, the market micro-structure does not allow for continuous trading, since operators require advance notice in order to verify that the schedule is feasible and lies within transmission constraints. Instead agents have to submit their bids and offers for delivery of electricity for all hours of the next day before a specified market closing time. We suggest the use of dynamic semi-parametric factor models (DSFM) for the behavior of hourly electricity prices. We find that a model with three factors is able to explain already a high proportion of the variation in hourly electricity prices. Our analysis also provides insights into the characteristics of the market, in particular with respect to the driving factors of hourly prices and their dynamic behavior through time.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"50 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121123018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modélisation Et Calibration Des Prix Spot Électriques (Modeling and Calibration of Spot Power Price)","authors":"O. Senhadji El Rhazi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2943967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2943967","url":null,"abstract":"<b>French Abstract</b>: Modele factoriel gaussien modélisant les prix d'électricité en France. Modélisation, calibration et valorisation des options vanillas sur forward. Ce document traite aussi la dessaisonalisation des prix et le calcul des facteurs avec maximum de vraisemblance. La calibration du modèle consiste à l'estimation de la tendance, la volatilité et la prime du risque historique des prix spots de l'électricité. La prime de risque étant variable et inconnue rend le problème de l'estimation très difficile. Les résidus récupérés de la calibration sont notamment non gaussien avec un Kurtosis autour de 5 et un pas de Skewness. Ce document est la première partie d'une étude exhaustive sur la nature de la dynamique des prix de l'électricité. Il se conclue que ce model gaussien est utile mais incomplet. Il nécessite une composante de saut sinon la valorisation des options sera fausse. <b>English Abstract</b>: Gaussian factorial model modeling French electricity prices. Modeling, calibration and valuation of vanilla options on forwards. This paper also discusses the seasonal adjustment of prices and the factors calculation using maximum likelihood. The calibration of the model is used to estimate the mean, volatility and the historical risk premium form electricity spots prices. The fact that the risk premium is variable and unknown makes the problem very difficult to estimate. The recovered residues of the calibration have a distribution non-Gaussian with a kurtosis around 5 and a 0 skewness. This document is the first part of a comprehensive study on the nature of the dynamics of electricity prices. It concluded that the Gaussian model is useful but incomplete. It requires a jump component if used for valuation of options the price would be off market.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129327426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}