Weather Risk Hedging in the European Markets and International Investment Diversification

Operation , Investment and Hedging in Electricity Markets

This paper develops hedging strategies for an electricity distributor in the Nordic electricity market who manages price and volume risk from fixed price agreements on stochastic electricity load. Whereas the distributor trades in the spot market at area prices, the financial contracts used for hedging are settled against the system price. Both the area price and the system price are correlated...

Diversification Benefit of International Equity Markets Subject to Investment Restrictions

This paper investigates the impact of constraints of short-sale and over-weight to international diversification benefits. We find that the short-sale restriction alone does not influence the diversifying benefit while the addition of over-weighting constraint significantly worsens mean-variance of optimal portfolio. This finding holds for the analyses of regional and cross-regional portfolios....

Investment , Consumption and Hedging under Incomplete Markets ∗

Entrepreneurs often face undiversifiable idiosyncratic risks from their business investments. Motivated by this observation, we extend the standard real options approach to investment to an incomplete markets environment and analyze the joint decisions of business investments, consumption-saving and portfolio selection. We show that precautionary saving motive affects the investment timing deci...

Integration And Segmentation In European Investment Services Markets: Assessing The Implications For International Real Estate Investment

International diversification with frontier markets

We provide an analysis of frontier market equities with respect to world market integration and diversification. Principal component results reveal that frontier markets exhibit low levels of integration. In contrast with developed and emerging markets, frontier markets offer no indication of increasing integration through time. Furthermore, individual frontier market countries do not exhibit c...