lenders—has spurred a shift in U.S. investment away from industry and toward speculation, mainly in real estate but also in …

Inspired by the increasing evidence of financialization/speculation in commodity pricing, this paper constitutes a …

Financialization creates space for the financial sector in economies, and in doing so helps to raise the share of …

was caused by the increased financialization of oil futures markets, which in turn allowed speculation to become a major … empirical methodologies and discuss to what extent each approach sheds light on the role of speculation. We find that the … existing evidence is not supportive of an important role of speculation in driving the spot price of oil after 2003. Instead …

commodity markets), and financialization i.e., financial investors (portfolio investment and speculation) attitude. This paper … is an attempt to investigate for the evidence and impact of speculation on volatility of commodity prices in Indian … commodity markets. And, results exhibit that speculation has played decisive role in the commodity price bubble during the …

. Numerous recent studies provide novel evidence of this “financialization” and analyze the extent to which it helps explain an …