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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
COMMODITY INDEX FUNDS AND PRICE SWINGS: CONDITIONS OF CAUSALITY
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| Autores: |
Gohin, Alexandre
Cordier, Jean
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| Data: |
2010-06-21
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| Ano: |
2010
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| Palavras-chave: |
Futures markets
Commodity price
Index funds
Stocks
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Risk and Uncertainty
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| Resumo: |
The role played by “speculators” during the 2007/08 food price spike is lively disputed. Our analysis focuses on the increasing participation of index funds in agricultural commodity futures markets before the food price spike. Our central theme is to determine if their prespike massive entry does prepare the subsequent crisis by maintaining low stock levels. We develop a theoretical model explaining the behaviour of speculators and traders on futures and cash markets. We allow index funds to inflict an informational externality on commercial traders that is supposed to induce a lower desire to hold stock. We find out that, once the production decisions of commercial traders are taken into account into the model, the increased net long position of index funds is inconsistent with lower stocks. We therefore conclude that commodity index funds are not a systematic cause of high market swings and that other relevant causes should be further studied.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/91283
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| Relação: |
International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium>Proceedings Issues>2010: Climate Change in World Agriculture: Mitigation, Adaptation, Trade and Food Security, June 2010, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany
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| Formato: |
19
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