The market price of risk for delivery periods: Pricing swaps and options in electricity markets

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In electricity markets, futures contracts typically function as a swap since they deliver the underlying over a period of time. In this paper, we introduce a market price for the delivery periods of electricity swaps, thereby opening an arbitrage-free pricing framework for derivatives based on these contracts. Furthermore, we use a weighted geometric averaging of an artificial geometric futures price over the corresponding delivery period. Without any need for approximations, this averaging results in geometric swap price dynamics. Our framework allows for including typical features as the Samuelson effect, seasonalities, and stochastic volatility. In particular, we investigate the pricing procedures for electricity swaps and options in line with Arismendi et al. (2016), Schneider and Tavin (2018), and Fanelli and Schmeck (2019). A numerical study highlights the differences between these models depending on the delivery period.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Center for Mathematical Economics Working Papers ; No. 635

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing; option pricing ; Energy: General
• Subject: Electricity Swaps ; Delivery Period ; Market Price of Delivery Risk ; Seasonality ; Samuelson Effect ; Stochastic Volatility ; Option Pricing ; Heston Model

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kemper, Annika ; Schmeck, Maren Diane ; Balci, Anna KH.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Bielefeld University, Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW)
• (where): Bielefeld
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/227831
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29433422
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET