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This paper utilizes a new approach to an examination of price impacts of speculators on futures markets. It focuses initially on specially obtained data on commodity “pools,” which are large funds of money that may move quickly between and across futures markets and other financial markets;...
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The aim of this paper is to study the oil price dynamic in West Texas Intermediate (WTI) market in the US. By using statistical and econometric tools, we first attempt to identify the long term relationship between WTI spot prices and the prices of futures contracts on the New York Mercantile...
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This article focuses on the impact of derivative markets on the American crude oil market. It first analyses the depth …
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The Masters Hypothesis is the claim that unprecedented buying pressure in recent years from commodity index investors created massive bubbles in food and energy prices. A number of recent studies investigate the empirical relationship between index investment and price movements in agricultural...
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The first decade of the 21st century has perhaps witnessed more structural change in commodity futures markets than all previous decades combined. Not only have trading volumes and open interest increased markedly, but this time period also saw historic changes in both trading and participants....
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vulnerability to financial speculation for energy commodities over the period 1992-2010. We find that financial speculation is … degree of vulnerability to financial speculation characterizes the futures market for crude oil in the 2008 crisis. …
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The effects of speculation in futures markets has been a topic of a long lasting debate in both empirical and … empirically test the relationship between speculation in futures markets and spot price volatility. The contribution of this study … an empirical test of the hypothesis that futures speculation decreases spot price volatility is conducted using data on …
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This article explores nonlinearities in the response of speculators’ trading activity to price changes in live cattle, corn, and lean hog futures markets. Analyzing weekly data from March 4, 1997 to December 27, 2005, we reject linearity in all of these markets. Using smooth transition...
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In recent years a number of market participants called into question the efficiency of the price discovery mechanism in commodity futures markets. They believe that speculators move commodity futures markets away from their fundamentals by distorting prices and exacerbating volatility. The...
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