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Futures price volatility in commodities markets : the role of short term vs long term speculation
Manera, Matteo; Nicolini, Marcella; Vignati, Ilaria - 2013
This paper evaluates how different types of speculation affect the volatility of commodities' futures prices. We adopt … four indexes of speculation: Working's T, the market share of non-commercial traders, the percentage of net long … speculators over total open interest in future markets, which proxy for long term speculation, and scalping, which proxies for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756298
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Internet, noise trading and commodity prices
Peri, Massimo; Vandone, Daniela; Baldi, Lucia - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759934
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The role of outliers and oil price shocks on volatility of metal prices
Behmiri, Niaz Bashiri; Manera, Matteo - 2015
This study investigates the price volatility of metals, using the GARCH and GJR models. First we examine the persistence of volatility and the leverage effect across metal markets taking into account the presence of outliers, and second we estimate the effects of oil price shocks on the price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327443
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How is volatility in commodity markets linked to oil price shocks?
Ahmadi, Maryam; Behmiri, Niaz Bashiri; Manera, Matteo - 2015
This study investigates the effects of oil price shocks on volatility of selected agricultural and metal commodities. To achieve this goal, we decompose an oil price shock to its underlying components, including macroeconomics and oil specific shocks. The applied methodology is the structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438674
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The effects of margin changes on commodity futures markets
Daskalaki, Charoula; Skiadopoulos, George - 2014 - This draft: 24 October 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472794
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Returns in commodities futures markets and financial speculation : a multivariate GARCH approach
Manera, Matteo; Nicolini, Marcella; Vignati, Ilaria - 2012
CCC and DCC multivariate GARCH models, we find that financial speculation is poorly significant in modelling returns in … ; Futures Markets ; Financial Speculation ; Multivariate GARCH …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535531
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Heterogeneous beliefs, regret, and uncertainty : the role of speculation in energy price dynamics
Joe͏̈ts, Marc - 2013
This paper proposes to investigate the impact of financialization on energy markets (oil, gas, coal and electricity European forward prices) during both normal times and extreme fluctuation periods through an original behavioral and emotional approach. To this aim, we propose a new theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737191
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Interpreting the oil risk premium : do oil price shocks matter?
Valenti, Daniele; Manera, Matteo; Sbuelz, Alessandro - 2018
This paper provides an analysis of the link between the global market for crude oil and oil futures risk premium at the aggregate level. It off ers empirical evidence on whether the compensation for risk required by the speculators depends on the type of the structural shock of interest....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794500
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Does the tail wag the dog? : evidence from fund flow to VIX ETFs and ETNs
Białkowski, Je̜drzej; Dang, Huong; Wei, Xiaopeng - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011886575
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On the links between stock and commodity markets’ volatility
Creti, Anna; Joëts, Marc; Mignon, Valérie - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665291