Trinity Business School Free Lunchtime Research Seminar Series, in association with Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS)
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Date: Thursday 17th January 2018
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Time: 1-2pm
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Venue: Room L 1.38, 152 - 160 Pearse Street, Trinity College Dublin
Trinity Business School is pleased to invite you to a talk by:
Professor Sjur Westgaard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
entitled:
Forecasting Price Distributions in the German Electricity Market
Abstract: Electricity price distributional forecasts are crucial to energy risk management. In this paper we model and forecast Value at Risk (VaR) for the German EPEX spot price using variable selection with quantile regression, exponential weighted quantile regression, exponential weighted double kernel quantile regression, GARCH models with skewed t error distributions, and various CAViaR models. Our findings are; (1) exponential weighted quantile regression tends to perform best overall quantiles and hours., and (2) different variables are selected for different quantiles and different hours. This is not surprising since the there is a non-linear relationship between fundamentals and the electricity price. This non-linear relationship is different between the different hours as the dynamics of the intra-daily prices are different. Quantile regression has the feature of capturing these effects. As the input mix has changed in Germany over the last years, exponential weighted quantile regression allowing for time-varying parameters can also capture the effect of changing quantile sensitivities over time. Exponential weighted quantile regression is also easy model to implement relative to the other models investigated in this study. Thus, we recommend this model together with carefully selecting fundamentals for given hours and quantiles when the aim is to forecast VaR for German electricity prices.
Bio: Professor Sjur Westgaard is a MSc and Phd of Industrial Economics from Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a MSc of Finance from Norwegian School of Business and Economics. He has previously worked as an investment portfolio manager for an insurance company, a project manager for a consultant company and as a credit analyst for an international bank. Currently he is professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and an Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences – Center for Commodity Market Analysis. His teaching involves corporate finance, derivatives and real options, empirical finance and financial risk management. He is one of the founder and editor of Journal of Commodity Markets. He is also an associate editor of Journal of Energy Markets and Journal of Banking and Finance. His main research interest include risk modelling of energy markets. He has recently also been a project manager for two energy research projects involving the research counsel of Norway, power companies, and academic institutions in Europe.
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