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Short-Term Variations and Long-Term Dynamics in Commodity Prices

Eduardo Schwartz (eduardo.schwartz@anderson.ucla.edu) and James E. Smith (jes9@mail.duke.edu)
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Eduardo Schwartz: Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1481
James E. Smith: Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0120

Management Science, 2000, vol. 46, issue 7, 893-911

Abstract: In this article, we develop a two-factor model of commodity prices that allows meanreversion in short-term prices and uncertainty in the equilibrium level to which prices revert. Although these two factors are not directly observable, they may be estimated from spot and futures prices. Intuitively, movements in prices for long-maturity futures contracts provide information about the equilibrium price level, and differences between the prices for the short- and long-term contracts provide information about short-term variations in prices. We show that, although this model does not explicitly consider changes in convenience yields over time, this short-term/long-term model is equivalent to the stochastic convenience yield model developed in Gibson and Schwartz (1990). We estimate the parameters of the model using prices for oil futures contracts and apply the model to some hypothetical oil-linked assets to demonstrate its use and some of its advantages over the Gibson-Schwartz model.

Keywords: commodity prices; real options; stochastic dynamic model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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