This paper examined the lead-lag relationship between the futures market and spot market for the metal commodity market during the sample period January 2010 through August 2014. The econometric tools like Unit root tests, Johansen co-integration test and Pairwise Granger Causality tests were...

This paper is to analyze the efficiency of agricultural spices commodity markets by assessing the relationships between futures prices and spot market prices of major agricultural spices commodities in India during the sample period of January 2010 through December 2014. The econometric tools...

Against the well-established fact that the usefulness and suitability of futures trading in developing the underlying agricultural commodity market, especially in an agriculture-based country like India are been questioned by various bodies. Through this work, it has been analyzing the role of...

Well established and efficient agricultural commodity futures markets, are expected to perform the role of price discovery and risk management more effectively. The results of the Johansen's cointegration tests have shown that the spot and futures markets for the 12 agricultural commodities are...

With due credit to the globalized interlinked economy, the international linkages, information transmission, and the spillover effect from one futures market to other markets across the world is well researched and documented. Especially several studies on equity, currency, and commodity markets...

In well-established and matured agricultural commodity futures market, like U.S., the futures markets are expected to serve as a central exchange for both domestic and international information and thus function as a primary mechanism for price discovery and reduce price variability through...

Although prices in the agricultural commodity futures markets have risen significantly in recent years, the results of this study support those of many previous studies that concluded that investments of commodity index traders and speculators in the futures markets are not the major causes of...