Predictive Performance and Bias: Evidence from Natural Gas Markets

Thomas Kremser and Margarethe Rammerstorfer

Journal of Management and Sustainability, 2017, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-26

Abstract: This paper sheds light on the differences and similarities in natural gas trading at the National Balancing Point in the UK and the Henry Hub located in the US. For this, we analyze traders¡¯ expectations and implement a mechanical forecasting model that allows traders to predict future spot prices. Based on this, we compute the deviations between expected and realized spot prices and analyze possible reasons and dependencies with other market variables. Overall, the mechanical predictor performs well, but a small forecast error remains which can not be characterized by the explanatory variables included.

Keywords: natural gas; commodity pricing; unbiasedness; Kalman filtering; risk premium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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