Manera, Matteo; Nicolini, Marcella; Vignati, Ilaria - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2013
speculators over total open interest in future markets, which proxy for long term speculation, and scalping, which proxies for …This paper evaluates how different types of speculation affect the volatility of commodities’ futures prices. We adopt … four indexes of speculation: Working’s T, the market share of non-commercial traders, the percentage of net long …