Speculation in Commodity Contracts and Options
Author : L. Dee Belveal
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : L. Dee Belveal
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Charles Huff
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780070308596
Author : Niklas Humann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3346496171
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,0, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper reviews the literature on futures markets as well as the recent food crisis and presents an empirical investigation of the influence of (index) speculation on the corn price. My findings are in line with most of the other empirical conclusions that, rather than speculation, factors from the real and monetary economy played a role in the spike of commodity prices. For centuries, corn has been one of the most produced crops in the world, used to feed people, livestock and machines. During the last quarter of the twentieth-century, world food prices declined by more than 50 percent, thereby improving the nourishment of people all over the world. However, this extensive decline also raised calls for protectionist policies, aimed at defending the welfare of commodity producers. Starting in the early 2000s, all classes of commodities have experienced hefty price increases. The price for corn increased by more than 250 percent in roughly three years (2005-2008). The resulting food crisis devastated low-income communities around the globe, with the already large part of their income they spent on food becoming even more substantial, causing hunger and malnutrition. While a variety of explanations for this crisis have been offered, some were quick to blame excessive (index) speculation.
Author : Christof Sigl-Grüb
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Warenterminmarkt - Spekulation Wirtschaft
ISBN : 9783830039846
Author : B. A. Goss
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Tobias Thürer
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3832538763
Since the mid 2000s, an increasing financialization of commodity futures markets is taking place. This has fueled an ongoing discussion about the effect of financial investments on the development of commodity prices. Against this background, the trading activities of financial speculators also come to the fore. There is the concern that such speculators can cause irrational overshootings of agricultural commodity prices, e.g. in the event of global production shocks. In such an event the decrease of total supply induces a price surge menacing food security in developing countries. Yet, the question emerges whether speculation aggravates this price increase, eventually inducing a price bubble. The relevance of this concern is reinforced by the fact that due to climate change an increased frequency and severity of global agricultural production shortfalls is at stake. If speculation evokes an additional threat to food security in the event of a production shock, the political agenda should not be confined to focus solely on the adaptation to climate change. Instead, it is then also necessary to address speculative activities on agricultural commodity markets. This book scrutinises whether speculative bubbles can be identified in the event of severe global production shocks. For this, a framework for tracing the transmission of the futures price's development on the spot market is developed. Using annual data from 1979-2012 for maize it is analysed whether production shock related price bubbles occurred.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher :
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Energy industries
ISBN :
Author : Michael Hachula
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
ISBN :
Author : B.A. Goss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 1976-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 134902693X
Author : Carley Garner
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2010-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0132478986
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from A Trader's First Book on Commodities: An Introduction to the World's Fastest Growing Market (9780137015450) by Carley Garner. Available in print and digital formats. Why futures are so valuable to speculators–and why speculation could help you earn life-changing profits. I encourage traders to come to futures and options for the right reasons and know what to expect when they get there. Along with significant risk of loss, there is potential for significant profits. That is why speculators flock to the markets and what keeps them coming back. For those with the willingness and the capital to speculate, the futures and options on futures markets offer some glaring advantages over other vehicles.