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...

On agricultural commodity futures, there is always been a doubt, expressed by different bodies and experts on the usefulness and suitability of futures contract in developing in the underlying agricultural commodity market, especially in an agricultural based economy like India. Here an attempt...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the market efficiency of Indian agricultural commodities - pepper and soybean on National Commodities & Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) using Johansen's co-integration test, VECM and granger causality test. The analysis used daily data on spot prices and near...