Supposed portfolio benefits of commodities and the increased availability of commodity linked investment products such as index funds contribute to a financialization of agricultural commodity markets. The parallel increase in price levels and short-term volatility for almost all major...

The functioning of commodity markets has changed related to processes of financialization that involve two major developments - the rise of financial interest on commodity derivative markets through the increasing presence of financial investors and the changing business models of international...

Die Debatte um Spekulationen mit Nahrungsmitteln erhielt 2011 mit einem offenen Brief an Josef Ackermann neuen Auftrieb. Der Chef der Deutschen Bank wurde darin mit den Erkenntnissen des jetzt in Buchform vorliegenden Reports der Verbraucherorganisation Foodwatch konfrontiert, der die negativen...

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...

Although prices in the agricultural commodity futures markets have risen significantly in recent years, the results of this study support those of many previous studies that concluded that investments of commodity index traders and speculators in the futures markets are not the major causes of...