Pricing and hedging of oil futures: A unifying approach

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We develop and empirically test a continuous time equilibrium model for the pricing of oil futures. The model provides a link between no-arbitrage models and expectation oriented models. It highlights the role of sufficient inventories for oil futures pricing and for the explanation of backwardation and contango situations. In an empirical study the hedging performance of our model is compared with five other one- and two-factor pricing models. The hedging problem considered is related to Metallgesellschaft's strategy to hedge long-term forward commitments with short-term futures. The results show that the downside risk distribution of our inventory based model stochastically dominates those of the other models.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge ; No. 190

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: oil futures ; Ölpreis ; Rohstoff-Futures ; Optionspreistheorie ; Hedging ; Strategie ; Schätzung ; Theorie ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bühler, Wolfgang ; Korn, Olaf ; Schöbel, Rainer
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
• (where): Tübingen
• (when): 2000

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/47582
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-20612
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET