A mathematical model for power derivatives
by She, Chunfeng, Ph.D., INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 2007, 67 pages; 3297110

Abstract:

Ever since the deregulation of the power market, lots of different complicated derivatives started to emerge in the market as risk management tool. For example, monthly option and daily option, etc. Because electricity has some unique features such as non-storability and requires instantaneous and constant balance between supply and demand, it is quite different from most products in financial markets or other commodity markets. These unique features make it difficult to construct a model to reconcile all kinds of derivatives consistently.

We investigate these unique features of electricity and suggest to treat different daily forwards as different products instead of a time series. We construct multivariate geometrical Brownian motions with certain correlation for these synthetic daily forwards. Then we examine the observable monthly forward process and find that another constructed log-normal process is very close to it under this construction of daily forward processes. Then we use this constructed process to derive the close formula to price monthly options. Finally we borrow the calendar spread idea from financial market and show that the monthly option could be hedged by daily option relatively well. This new mathematical model reconciles different observable products in the market pretty well, provides rather simple closed-form formulas to price monthly/daily options, and furnishes with easily calculated hedging strategy.

 
AdviserVictor W. Goodman
SchoolINDIANA UNIVERSITY
SourceDAI/B 69-02, p. , May 2008
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsMathematics
Publication Number3297110
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