Manera, Matteo; Nicolini, Marcella; Vignati, Ilaria - 2013
This paper evaluates how different types of speculation affect the volatility of commodities' futures prices. We adopt … short term speculation. We consider four energy commodities (light sweet crude oil, heating oil, gasoline and natural gas …) and seven non-energy commodities (cocoa, coffee, corn, oats, soybean oil, soybeans and wheat) over the period 1986 …