Yang, Jian; Balyeat, R. Brian; Leatham, David J. - In: Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 32 (2005-01) 1-2, pp. 297-323
This paper examines the lead-lag relationship between futures trading activity (volume and open interest) and cash price volatility for major agricultural commodities. Granger causality tests and generalized forecast error variance decompositions show that an unexpected increase in futures...