Energy Trading and Risk Management, 1st ed. 2022 Commentary on Arbitrage, Risk Measurement, and Hedging Strategy Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research Series

This book introduces empirical methods for analyzing energy markets. Even beginners in econometrics and mathematical finance must be able to learn how to utilize these methodologies and how to interpret the analysis results. This book provides some example analyses of the North American, European, and Asian energy markets. The reader will experience some theories and practices of energy trading and risk management. This book reveals the characteristics of energy markets using quantitative analyses. Examples include unit root, cointegration, long-term equilibrium, stochastic arbitrage simulation, multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models, exponential GARCH (EGARCH) models, optimal hedge ratio, copula, value-at-risk (VaR), expected shortfall, vector autoregressive (VAR) models, vector moving average (VMA) models, connectedness, and frequency decomposition. This book is suitable for people interested in the empirical study of energy markets and energy trade.

Dr. Shigeyuki Hamori is a Professor of Economics at Kobe University in Japan. He received a Ph.D. from Duke University. He is the President of the International Research Institute for Economics and Management, the Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (DFIETI), and the Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DFIDSAI). His main research interests are applied time series analysis, empirical finance, data science, and international finance. He is the Co-Editor of the Singapore Economic Review, the Associate Editor of the International Review of Financial Analysis, and the Associated Editor of the Eurasian Economic Review. He served as the Editor of special issues of various journals such as  Frontiers in Environmental Science, Energies, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, and Journal of Risk and Financial Management. He has published about 250 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 20books from Springer, Routledge, World Scientific, etc.