The risk premia of energy futures

A-Tier
Journal: Energy Economics
Year: 2021
Volume: 102
Issue: C

Authors (3)

Fernandez-Perez, Adrian (not in RePEc) Fuertes, Ana-Maria (City University) Miffre, Joelle (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

1.341 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This paper studies the energy futures risk premia that can be extracted through long-short portfolios that exploit heterogeneities across contracts as regards various characteristics or signals and integrations thereof. Investors can earn a sizeable premium of about 8% and 12% per annum by exploiting the energy futures contract risk associated with the hedgers' net positions and roll-yield characteristics, respectively, in line with predictions from the hedging pressure hypothesis and theory of storage. Simultaneously exploiting various signals towards style-integration with alternative weighting schemes further enhances the premium. In particular, the style-integrated portfolio that equally weights all signals stands out as the most effective. The findings are robust to transaction costs, data mining and sub-period analyses.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:eneeco:v:102:y:2021:i:c:s0140988321003467
Journal Field
Energy
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25