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UK Gas Markets: the Market Price of Risk and Applications to Multiple Interruptible Supply Contracts

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Alvaro Cartea (Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics, Birkbeck)
Thomas Williams

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We employ the Schwartz and Smith (2000) model to explore the dynamics of the UK gas markets. We discuss in detail the short-term and long-term market prices of risk borne by the market players and how deviations from expected cyclical storage affect the short-term market price of risk. Finally, we illustrate an application of the model by pricing interruptible supply contracts that are currently traded in the UK.

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Paper provided by Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics in its series Birkbeck Working Papers in Economics and Finance with number 0608.

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Keywords: Interruptible supply contracts; gas markets; commodities; market price of short-term and long-term risk; multi-exercise Bermudan options; convenience yield.;

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G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing
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  1. Álvaro Cartea & Marcelo Figueroa, 2005. "Pricing in Electricity Markets: A Mean Reverting Jump Diffusion Model with Seasonality," Applied Mathematical Finance, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 12(4), pages 313-335, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Longstaff, Francis A & Schwartz, Eduardo S, 2001. "Valuing American Options by Simulation: A Simple Least-Squares Approach," Review of Financial Studies, Oxford University Press for Society for Financial Studies, vol. 14(1), pages 113-47.
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  1. Reik H. Boerger & Alvaro Cartea & Ruediger Kiesel & Gero Schindlmayr, 2007. "A Multivariate Commodity Analysis and Applications to Risk Management," Birkbeck Working Papers in Economics and Finance 0709, Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics. [Downloadable!]
  2. Fred Espen Benth & Alvaro Cartea & Ruediger Kiesel, 2006. "Pricing Forward Contracts in Power Markets by the Certainty Equivalence Principle: Explaining the Sign of the Market Risk Premium," Birkbeck Working Papers in Economics and Finance 0611, Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics. [Downloadable!]
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