Comparison of the hedging performance in crude oil and natural gas

Authors

BENADA Luděk

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference ENTERPRISE AND COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Keywords Risk; Hedging; Futures; Portfolio; Minimum variance
Description The paper examines the issue of hedging against price risk of the key energy sources. The subjects of research are the spot prices of the West Texas Intermediate and the Henry Hub. The risk protection is provided by applying the future contracts of underlying assets. The hedge ratio is determined by using the OLS, Naive portfolio, Copula and Arch/Garch. Afterwards, the ability to reduce risk was measured by hedging effectiveness over twelve months period. The significance of distinct models was evaluated on the sum of residual risk. The results confirmed that the applied model for crude oil is irrelevant in comparison to the natural gas, where the employed models provided significant differences in hedging effectiveness.
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