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Sanders, Dwight R.; Irwin, Scott H.; Merrin, Robert P.. |
Long-only commodity index funds have been blamed by other futures market participants for inflating commodity prices, increasing market volatility, and distorting historical price relationships. Much of this criticism is leveled without any formal empirical support or even cursory data analyses. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission makes available the positions held by index funds and other large traders in their Commitment’s of Traders report. In this research, we make an initial assessment of the size and activity of index funds in traditional agricultural futures markets. The results suggest that after an initial surge from early 2004 through mid-2005, index fund positions have stabilized as a percent of total open interest. Speculative... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Commitment’s of Traders; Index funds; Commodity futures markets; Agricultural Finance. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37615 |
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Sanders, Dwight R.; Irwin, Scott H.; Merrin, Robert P.. |
The objective of this report is to re-visit the “adequacy of speculation” debate in agricultural futures markets. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission makes available the positions held by index funds and other large traders in their Commitment of Traders reports. The results suggest that after an initial surge from early 2004 through mid-2005, index fund positions have stabilized as a percent of total open interest. Traditional speculative measures do not show any material changes or shifts over the sample period. In most markets, the increase in long speculative positions was equaled or surpassed by an increase in short hedging. So, even after adjusting speculative indices for index fund positions, values are within the historical ranges reported in... |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Commitment’s of Traders; Index funds; Commodity futures markets; Agricultural Finance; Financial Economics. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37512 |
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