Spot contract

About: Spot contract is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3437 publications have been published within this topic receiving 91599 citations.

The derived demand with hedging cost uncertainty in the futures markets

Abstract: This study explores the significance of production technology and other parameters on the employment of inputs and hedging. The paper establishes an explicit relationship between the risk as well as prices parameters and the derived demand, production and hedging. The authors find that the futures price relative to the expected spot price affects the demand for production factors. Additionally, the presence of basis risk determines the impact of prices and risk parameters on the derived demand for inputs. Production technology is instrumental in fixing the size of the change in the demand, given a change in the model's parameters. Copyright 1992 by Royal Economic Society.

Are oil, gold and the euro inter-related? time series and neural network analysis

Abstract: This paper investigates inter-relationships among the price behavior of oil, gold and the euro using time series and neural network methodologies. Traditionally gold is a leading indicator of future inflation. Both the demand and supply of oil as a key global commodity are impacted by inflationary expectations and such expectations determine current spot prices. Inflation influences both short and long-term interest rates that in turn influence the value of the dollar measured in terms of the euro. Certain hypotheses are formulated in this paper and time series and neural network methodologies are employed to test these hypotheses. We find that the markets for oil, gold and the euro are efficient but have limited inter-relationships among themselves.

Competition and price asymmetries in the Greek oil sector: an empirical analysis on gasoline market

Abstract: This article attempts to investigate the issue of asymmetries in the transmission of shocks to input prices and exchange rate onto the wholesale and retail price of gasoline respectively. For this purpose, we utilise the error-correction methodology in the Greek gasoline market. The sample consists of monthly data covering the period of January 1988 to June 2006. We also try to analyse by using impulse response functions the effect of competition on the dynamic adjustment of gasoline price to which has been paid scant attention in the past. The results favour the common perception that retail gasoline prices respond asymmetrically to cost increases and decreases both in the long and the short-run. At the wholesale segment, there is a symmetric response of the spot prices of gasoline towards the adjustment to the short-run responses of the exchange rate. Lastly, after the deregulation, wholesale prices of gasoline tend to gradually restore equilibrium triggered by a price shock compared to the regulated period.

Price discovery in the options markets: An application of put-call parity

Abstract: This study investigates the relative rate of price discovery in Taiwan between index futures and index options, proposing a put-call parity (PCP) approach to recover the spot index embedded in the options premiums. The PCP approach offers the benefits of reducing model risk and alleviating the burden of volatility estimation. Consistent with the trading-cost hypothesis, a dominant tendency is found for futures and a subordinate but non-trivial price discovery from options. The relative weight of options price discovery is sensitive to the methodology employed as the means of inferring the option-implicit spot price. The empirical evidence suggests that the information contained in the PCP-implied spot encompasses that provided by the Black-Scholes-implied spot. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 28:354– 375, 2008