Freigth market; derivatives; integration;

Lautier, Delphine

Raynaud, Franck

English

Research Papers in Economics

The freight market and its 
interaction with the energy 
system 
D. Lautier & F. Raynaud 
University Paris-Dauphine  
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•  Financial point of view on the links between the freight market and 
the energy system 
•  Focus on derivative markets and their interactions 
1. Questions about the energy markets:  
   - Concerns about speculation 
   - Portfolio management / commodities as a new class of assets 
   - Development of bio fuels 
  2. Questions about the freight market :    
     - What kind of links with other derivative markets   
     - How do these links evolve since 10 years ?   
Objectives 3	

Objectives 
•  Empirical studies on integration in derivative markets 
•  Co movement and cross market linkages 
•  Integration as a necessary condition for systemic risk to appear 
•  Selected markets and data :  
 - Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) 
 - Energy products: crude oil (US & UK), heating oil (US), gasoil (UK), 
natural gases (US & UK) 
     - Agricultural products : soy beans, soy oil, wheat, corn 
•  Futures contracts with large transaction volumes, 2000-2009 
•  Daily settlement prices (1rst nearby) :  11 markets (more than 20 000 
prices ) 4	

Prices, 2000-2009 Methodology 
•  Synchronous correlation of price returns as a way to measure 
integration / co-movement 
•  Huge volume of data / Complex evolving system   
•  Use of methods originated from statistical physic : Graph-theory 
•  Full connected graph :  
                        All possible connections between N nodes 
•  Filtered graph : Minimum Spanning Trees (MST) 
                                The shortest path between all nodes 
The best candidate for the propagation of prices moves  Correlations are intrinsically time dependent measures 
Correlations of price returns 
Prices return of asset i,  ri :  
Synchronous correlation coefficients ρ of prices returns r :  
      
- With:  Fi(t), futures prices of asset i, at t 
- Correlation matrix C, (N x N) 
- C symmetric Price returns, all markets 
 Mean Correlations  Correlations’ variances 
Co-movement increases Agricultural products 
Correlations of price returns 
Energy products 
The co-movement is more important in the sub-set of agricultural products.    
The same is true for energy products  Building a graph 
•  The graph represents all the possible connections between N nodes 
    - Node: market (time series of price returns) 
    - Link:  distance between 2 markets (correlations) 
• Non linear transformation : from correlations to distances 
• Distance dij, between node i and node j, is defined as follows:  
•    Distance matrix D, (N x N) 
Full connected graph  10 	

Full connected graph and node’s strength 
•  How does markets closeness evolve ?  
•  Node’s strength 
•  The node’s strength Si indicates the closeness of one node i to all 
others:  
        
Freight / others 11 	

Agricultural products 
Energy products 12 	

•  Objective : filter the information contained in the full connected graph 
•  All the nodes of the graph are spanned, with no loops  
•  Result: links of the MST are a subset of the initial graph 
•  The information space is reduced from (N(N-1)/2) to (N-1) 
•  In this study : shortest path linking all nodes 
           Easiest path for the transmission of prices move 
Minimum spanning trees (MST) 13 	
 The freight market and its interaction with the energy system	

 Topology of the MST,  
2000-2009 14 	

 The length of the MST 
•  Normalized tree’s length: sum of the lengths of the links belonging to 
the MST  
•    The more the length shortens,  
the more integrated the system is  
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E(t) : set of links at date t 
 Survival ratios and the stability of the prices system 
•  Survival ratios on the basis of market links, in the MST 
•  Robustness of the topology over time 
•  SR refers to the fraction of links that survives between two  consecutive 
trading days: 
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  Topology of the MST,  
September 2008 17 	

 Topology of the MST 
March 2004 18 	

Where does our system stand, between order and 
disorder ? 
•   Allometric properties of the MST 
•  Quantifying the degree of randomness in the tree 
•   The root is the node with the highest connectivity 
•   Starting from this root, two coefficients Ai and Bi are assigned to each 
node i:  
      
           Where η is the allometric exponent 
 η stands between 1+ (star-like) and 2- (chain-like) The freight market and its interaction with the energy system	

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Where does our system stand, between order and 
disorder ? 20 	

Main results and conclusions 
•   Integration 
 - Increases since 10 years 
 - Progresses at the heart of the system 
•  The prices system:  
 - Is organized around the sectors of activity 
            - Center of the system: two crude oils 
•  For the freight market, the energy prices are more important than those 
of agricultural products.  
        

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