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Speculators, commodities and cross-market linkages

Büyükşahin, Bahattin; Robe, Michel A. - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 42 (2014) C, pp. 38-70

We use a unique, non-public dataset of trader positions in 17 U.S. commodity futures markets to provide novel evidence on those markets' financialization in the past decade. We then show that the correlation between the rates of return on investible commodity and equity indices rises amid...

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Quel impact des nouveaux spéculateurs sur les prix agricoles ? Une analyse empirique des fonds d’investissement

Cordier, Jean; Gohin, Alexandre - Laboratoire Études et Recherches Économiques … - 2012

The financial development of agricultural markets is not recent. But, starting early 2000, a large amount of investments on commodity markets, including agriculture, have been realized using innovative instruments. And in 2007-08, the continuous increase of investment was simultaneous with...

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Direct and Indirect Effects of Index ETFs on Spot-Futures Pricing and Liquidity : Evidence from the CAC 40 Index

Gresse, Carole; Deville, Laurent; De Séverac, Béatrice - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

spot-futures price efficiency improvement observed after ETF introduction is explained either by the direct effect of ETF … shares being used in arbitrage trades or by the indirect effect of ETF trading improving the liquidity of index stocks in the … way index traders distribute across index markets, with the ETF market absorbing the liquidity demand from some hedgers or …

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DETERMINANTES DE LA ELECCIÓN DE ADMINISTRADORA DE PENSIONES: PRIMERAS ESTIMACIONES A PARTIR DE AGREGADOS

Arango, Luis Eduardo; Melo, Luis Fernando - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2006

Utilizando información del sistema de ahorro individual entre 1998 y 2005, se encuentra evidencia de que la tasa de retorno real de los fondos y la población ocupada son los determinantes principales del número de cotizantes a las distintas AFP. El valor promedio del fondo, utilizado como...

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Determinantes de la elección de administradora de pensiones en Colombia: primeras estimaciones a partir de agregados

Thomas, Luis Eduardo Arango; Velandia, Luis Fernando Melo - In: Lecturas de Economía (2007) 66, pp. 173-212

This paper is aimed at studying the main determinants of people’s choice of a pension fund manager. By using information of the individual saving system (the private system) between 1998 and 2005, and applying panel cointegration techniques, the paper provides evidence in the sense that the...

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Equity Indexing: Conitegration and Stock Price Dispersion: A Regime Switiching Approach to market Efficiency

Alexander, Carol; Dimitriu, Anca - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2003

This paper examines the performance of a general dynamic equity indexing strategy based on cointegration, from a market efficiency perspective. A consistent return in excess of the benchmark is demonstrated over different time horizons and in different, real world and simulated stock markets. A...

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The Role of Pension Funds in Capital Market Development

Meng, Channarith; Pfau, Wade Donald - National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) - 2010

This paper provides an investigation of the impacts of pension funds on capital market development, both for stock markets and bond markets. For the overall sample of countries, we find that pension fund financial assets have positive impacts on stock market depth and liquidity as well as...

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Determinantes de la elección de administradora de pensiones: primeras estimaciones a partir de agregados

Arango, Luis Eduardo; Melo, Luis Fernando - Banco de la Republica de Colombia

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Italian open-end funds: performance of asset management companies

Bianchi, Michele Leonardo; Miele, Maria Grazia - Banca d'Italia - 2011

average no greater than that of the benchmark chosen by the managers. In addition, as expected, the fundsï¿½ systematic risk …

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Sovereign credit ratings

Eliasson, Ann-Charlotte - Deutsche Bank Research - 2002

This paper describes sovereign credit ratings in emerging markets both for a specific year and over time, using quantitative explanatory variables. It turns out that rating adjustments have been worse than what economic fundamentals justify for some countries and also more frequently altered,...

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