Commodities and commodity derivatives :modelling and pricing for agriculturals, metals, and energy
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West Sussex
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John Wiley & Sons
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c2005
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xvii, 396 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Fundamentals of commodity spot and futures markets -- Equilibrium relationships between spot prices and forward prices -- Stochastic modelling of commodity price processes -- Plain-vanilla option pricing and hedging -- Risk-neutral valuation of plain-vanilla options -- Monte-Carlo simulations and analytical formulae for Asian, barrier, and quanto options -- Agricultural commodity markets -- The structure of metal markets and metal prices -- The oil market as a world market -- The gas market as the energy market of the next decades -- Spot and forward electricity markets -- Commodity swaptions, swing, and take-or-pay contracts and real options -- In the energy industry -- Coal, emissions, and weather -- Commodities as a new asset class