The Predictive Characteristics of Energy Futures: Recent Evidence for Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Gasoline and Heating Oil
- 1 January 2001
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between futures and spot prices for energy commodities. In particular, we examine whether futures prices are (1) an unbiaseKeywords
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