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Financialization in Commodity Markets
Chari, V.V. - 2017
growth rate and volatility of commodity spot prices. This view gained credence because in the 2000s trading volume increased …
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Unspanned Stochastic Volatility and the Pricing of Commodity Derivatives
Trolle, Anders B. - 2006
We conduct a comprehensive analysis of unspanned stochastic volatility in commodity markets in general and the crude …-oil market in particular. We present model-free results that strongly suggest the presence of unspanned stochastic volatility in … stochastic volatility. The model features correlations between innovations to futures prices and volatility, quasi …
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Commodity Connectedness
Diebold, Francis X. - 2017
We use variance decompositions from high-dimensional vector autoregressions to characterize connectedness in 19 key commodity return volatilities, 2011-2016. We study both static (full-sample) and dynamic (rolling-sample) connectedness. We summarize and visualize the results using tools from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454997
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The Financialization of Commodity Markets
Cheng, Ing-Haw - 2013
The large inflow of investment capital to commodity futures markets in the last decade has generated a heated debate about whether financialization distorts commodity prices. Rather than focusing on the opposing views concerning whether investment flows either did or did not cause a price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459020
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Bubble Troubles? Rational Storage, Mean Reversion and Runs in Commodity Prices
Bobenrieth H., Eugenio S. - 2013
, including influential studies identifying price bubbles in periods of high volatility. Here we consider a model of the market …
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Limits to Arbitrage and Hedging : Evidence from Commodity Markets
Acharya, Viral V. - 2011
Motivated by the literature on limits-to-arbitrage, we build an equilibrium model of commodity markets in which speculators are capital constrained, and commodity producers have hedging demands for commodity futures. Increases (decreases) in producers' hedging demand (speculators' risk-capacity)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461784
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Macro-Hedging for Commodity Exporters
Borensztein, Eduardo - 2009
domestic welfare through two channels. First, by reducing export income volatility and allowing for a smoother consumption path …
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Risk Premia in Crude Oil Futures Prices
Hamilton, James D. - 2013
If commercial producers or financial investors use futures contracts to hedge against commodity price risk, the arbitrageurs who take the other side of the contracts may receive compensation for their assumption of nondiversifiable risk in the form of positive expected returns from their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459606
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Level and Volatility Factors in Macroeconomic Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2017
level of the fundamentals. Though volatility shocks could be important too, their propagating mechanism is still not well … can separate the level factors from the volatility factors and assess their relative importance without directly … estimating the volatility processes. This is made possible by exploiting features in the second order approximation of …
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Parametric Inference and Dynamic State Recovery from Option Panels
Andersen, Torben G. - 2012
the spot volatility extracted from the options and the one obtained nonparametrically from high-frequency data on the … underlying asset. We further construct new formal tests of the model fit for specific regions of the volatility surface and for … index options we extend the popular double-jump stochastic volatility model to allow for time-varying jump risk premia and a …
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