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...

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...

The main purpose of introducing gold option futures is because option futures on gold will be fundamentally used for hedging the risks associated with gold price changes. But there is a common question whether that gold option contracts are effective in hedging price. This paper will be the...

This paper tests the impact of the commodity transaction tax (CTT) introduced in Indian commodity market since July 2013, particularly on market liquidity and volatility aspects. We rely on a distinctive design of the tax, which is imposed only on non agri-commodities. Here, we considered Gold...

The rationale behind introduction of CTT by government of India is still unclear. But as per few experts, revenue generation was the topmost priority behind the imposition of CTT, besides checking price volatility. In this study by adopting the bootstrap, and modified GARCH methodology, we...

The primary reason for the existence of commodity derivatives market is to offer instruments for price discovery and risk management. Imposition of CTT on futures trading in non-agriculture commodities has allegedly disturbed the Indian commodity market from carrying out its function price...