Market efficiency, cross hedging and price forecasts: California's natural-gas markets

Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 1290-1304

  Woo, C K ^a,b   Olson, A ^a   Horowitz, I ^c,d,e  

^a Energy and Environmental Economics Inc   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HENRY HUB; MARKET EFFICIENCY; MARKET INTEGRATION; NATURAL-GAS MARKETS;

NATURAL GAS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL GAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ENERGY MARKET; FORECASTING METHOD; NATURAL GAS; PRICE DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 32844470818     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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