In his seminal article, Samuelson (1965) formulated the proposition that futures prices are more volatile the closer a particular contract is to expiry. This paper applies testing procedures for the Samuelson Hypothesis (or maturity effect) to commodity futures contracts on the Sydney Futures...

Backwardation, first discussed by Keynes (1923), (1930) and Hicks (1946), is a fee paid by a seller of a security to the buyer for the privilege of deferring delivery. It implies that the futures price falls short of the spot price. The reverse case, 'contango', implies that the futures price...

We comment on a recent paper by Beaver, McAnally and Stinson (1997), drawing attention to the fact that their method ignores some recent developments in time-series econometrics. We apply a bi-variate vector autoregression framework to price and earnings data of listed US companies and the...

This paper uses a recently suggested test for unit roots in panels of time series data (Maddala and Wu, 1999) to consider the Purchasing Power Parity hypothesis. The major innovation of this test is that it allows both the testing of unit root null, using the ADF test, and the stationarity null,...

The paper uses a recently suggested test for unit roots in panels of time series data (Maddala and Wu, 1999) to consider the Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis. The major innovation of this test is that it allows both the testing of the unit root null, using the ADF test, and the stationarity...