It is commonly asserted that speculative buying by index funds in commodity futures andover–the–counter derivatives … markets created a ‘‘bubble’’ in commodity prices, with the resultthat prices, and crude oil prices, in particular, far … situation in commoditymarkets are inconsistent with the existence of a substantial bubble in commodity prices.Third, available …

include the impact on commodity prices, the profitability of traders, and the existence of trading skill. To address these … questions twelve commodity markets are chosen to capture the majority of agricultural trading on organized futures markets and … encompass the agricultural commodity index trading activity. The data used are from the proprietary large trader database of the …

quality of commodity are the main factors of influence, while advertisement and customer services are not very important for …

companies has lately been accelerating. Along with a general liberalisation of the economic policy in Iceland, there seems to be …

, but now it is possible to study how the system works in real settings. Two countries, New Zealand and Iceland, have … adopted ITQ's as an overall fisheries management system on a national level. In Iceland, fish quotas were made transferable …-regime. In Iceland the demand for quotas is influenced by unemployment and lack of alternative sources of income for fishermen …