Monitoring and analysing information transmission across different shipping markets is an important tool for participants to predict shipping freight rates, design portfolio investments and manage freight rate risks. The purpose of this article is to investigate spillover effects and dynamic correlations between shipping spot and derivatives markets (tanker forward freight agreement, FFA) under the multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity framework. Empirical results show that spillovers in returns are unilateral from one-month FFA to spot markets, while they are bilateral between one-month and two-month FFA markets. However, insignificant mean spillovers between spot and two-month FFA markets are found. Volatility spillover effects among one-month FFA, two-month FFA and spot freight markets are bilateral. By analysing the correlation between different markets, highly persistent and significantly volatile correlations are found. Moreover, time-varying correlations between one-month and two-month FFA markets are much higher than those of between spot and each FFA market. Results from this article will be helpful to improve participants’ predictions of return, volatility and correlation, which are significant for determining hedge strategies. In addition, the management of freight rate risk and portfolio investment can also benefit from the empirical results obtained in this article.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	FFA; Mean spillovers; Volatility spillovers; Dynamic correlations
Research Division:	Economics
Research Group:	Applied economics
Research Field:	Transport economics
Objective Division:	Defence
Objective Group:	Defence
Objective Field:	Logistics
UTAS Author:	Shi, W (Dr Wenming Shi)
ID Code:	112458
Year Published:	2014
Web of Science® Times Cited:	26
Deposited By:	Maritime and Logistics Management
Deposited On:	2016-11-11
Last Modified:	2018-04-12
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