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In light of the recently passed 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, we assess the effect of margin changes on prices, the risk-sharing between speculators and hedgers, and the price stability of 20 commodity futures markets. We find that margin increases decrease the rate at which prices change, yet they...
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their crops, which are forward looking, and thus reduce their market risk. But in India, agri-futures have gone through a … assessing potential success of a commodity in agri-futures in India. We find that commodities that are relatively less sensitive … commodities. Thus, the lessons learnt are that futures market can be deepened in India by (1) focusing first on "non …
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Commodity derivatives were introduced in India with a dual purpose of promoting price discovery and enhancing risk …
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Trading in commodity derivatives on exchange platforms is an instrument to achieve price discovery, better price risk management, besides helping macro-economy with better resource allocation. Since the inception (2003) of national online trading on multi-commodity exchange platforms, the trade...
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This paper investigates the forecasting performance of three popular variants of the non-linear GARCH models, namely VS-GARCH, GJR-GARCH and Q-GARCH, with the symmetric GARCH(1,1) model as a benchmark. The application involves ten European stock price indexes. Forecasts produced by each...
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Security Transaction Tax (STT) was introduced in the Indian capital market in 2004. It is a tax on transaction of equities as well as their derivatives. Despite the reduction in STT over the years, it constitutes a large percentage (next only to brokerage fee) of the total cost of trading. The...
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study existing legislation and financial sector regulatory practices in India and to propose improvements. The FSLRC … last section of the paper examines and comments on the principal FSLRC proposals to further develop India’s financial …
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