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From:vince.kaminski@enron.com
To:grant.masson@enron.com
Subject:Long-Term Volatility Curves
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Date:Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:10:00 -0700 (PDT)

Grant,

Did you respond to this one?

Vince

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Dale Surbey
08/21/2000 04:56 AM
To: Grant Masson/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT
Subject: Long-Term Volatility Curves

Grant,

Can Research in Houston put together a comparison of the long-term volatility
curves for gas and power in North America and Europe? Based on where Europe
is marked (especially for the UK), I think we'll find a significant
difference out beyond 10 years. Fundamentally, it seems like the long-term
vol should be similar for a given commodity regardless of geographic location.

Has Research done any work on this in the past? If not, we should study this
since long-term vol feeds into the VAR-based position limits.

Give me a call so we can discuss.

Thanks

Dale