The impact of fundamental and financial traders on the term structure of oil

Energy Economics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 276-287

  Heidorn, Thomas ^a   Mokinski, Frieder ^b   Rühl, Christoph ^c   Schmaltz, Christian ^d,e  

^a FRANKFURT SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e True North Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Market integration; Oil price rise; Price speculation; WTI

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

LONG POSITION; MARKET INTEGRATION; OIL PRICES; PRICE RISE; PRICE SPECULATION; TERM STRUCTURE;

CRUDE OIL PRICE;

BENCHMARKING; CRUDE OIL; FINANCIAL MARKET; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 84922974251     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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