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Table 3: Parameter estimates for soybean contracts, Full sample: Oct. 1984 – Mar. 1999.<br />

<strong>Volatility</strong> κ: 2.2708 θ : 0.1542 σ v : 0.7414 ν 1 : −0.4096 ν ∗ 1 : −0.2626 ν 2 : 0.2250 ν ∗ 2 : 0.1293<br />

parameters: (0.2654) (0.0085) (0.0299) (0.0387) (0.0483) (0.0229) (0.0223)<br />

Convenience yield β : 0.8145 σ δ : 0.9933 α 0 : 0.0612 α 1 : −0.2683 α ∗ 1 : 0.1915 α 2 : 0.2338 α ∗ 2 : 0.2689<br />

parameters: (0.2100) (0.1345) (0.0086) (0.0276) (0.0130) (0.0255) (0.0600)<br />

Correlations <strong>and</strong> risk ρ 12 : 0.3979 ρ 13 : 0.4078 ρ 23 : −0.0784 λ P : −0.6274 λ δ : −0.1282 λ v : −3.7829<br />

premia parameters: (0.0110) (0.0461) (0.0772) (1.3001) (1.2286) (1.5610)<br />

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Correlation matrix of measurement errors (st<strong>and</strong>ard deviation estimates <strong>in</strong> diagonal):<br />

⎛<br />

⎜<br />

⎝<br />

⎞<br />

0.9606<br />

−0.3075 0.8040<br />

0.0489 0.2150 2.4068<br />

0.0164 0.1373 0.7310 3.4679<br />

−0.2480 0.1719 0.1118 0.1053 0.0180<br />

−0.1871 0.1153 0.1435 0.1549 0.8947 0.0265<br />

−0.1236 0.0850 0.2187 0.2398 0.7175 0.9137 0.0279<br />

−0.0638 0.0566 0.2922 0.3084 0.5302 0.7388 0.9238 0.0254<br />

⎟<br />

−0.0688 0.0755 0.2306 0.2765 0.3838 0.5751 0.7466 0.8870 0.0193 ⎠<br />

−0.1199 0.0808 0.1573 0.2042 0.2053 0.3663 0.4892 0.6014 0.8191 0.0116<br />

Log-likelihood function value: 8468.59

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