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Do Commodity Index Traders Destabilize Agricultural Futures Prices?

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Motivated by repeated price spikes and crashes over the last decade, we investigate whether the intensive investment activities of commodity index traders(CITs) have destabilized agricultural futures markets. Using a stochastic volatility model, we treat conditional volatility as an unobserved component, and analyze whether it has been affected by the expected and unexpected open interest of CITs. However, with respect to twelve increasingly financialized grain, livestock, and soft commodities, we do not find robust evidence that this is the case. We thus conclude that justifying a tighter regulation of CITs by blaming them for more volatile agricultural futures markets appears to be unwarranted.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Applied Economics Quarterly

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Duncker & Humblot

Ämne

  • Probability Theory and Statistics

Nyckelord

  • Commodity Index Traders
  • Futures Prices
  • Agricultural Markets

Status

Inpress

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1611-6607