This paper takes an innovative look at the relationship between the pricing of commodity futures contracts and its relation to storage and speculation. Fifteen commodities are analyzed over the time period from 1990 to 2010. Contrary to other studies, we analyze temporary and permanent futures...

We analyse the dynamic behavior of conditional volatility in commodity markets using a novel, manually collected dataset of daily price ranges over a time span of more than 140 years, which allows more precise daily volatility estimates than are otherwise prevalent in the commodity literature....

There are numerous empirical studies on the impact of speculation on commodity futures prices. The papers strongly differ in terms of the focus variable (e.g. price, volatility, spillover effects) of speculative effects, the speculation measure used, and their methodological sophistication and...