Price discovery in agricultural commodity markets: Do speculators contribute?
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- Martin T. Bohl & Pierre L. Siklos & Martin Stefan & Claudia Wellenreuther, 2018. "Price Discovery in Agricultural Commodity Markets: Do Speculators Contribute?," CQE Working Papers 7518, Center for Quantitative Economics (CQE), University of Muenster.
- Martin T. Bohl & Pierre L. Siklos & Martin Stefan & Claudia Wellenreuther, 2019. "Price discovery in agricultural commodity markets: Do speculators contribute?," CAMA Working Papers 2019-42, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
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Commodity markets; Futures speculation; Price discovery;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
- G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
- Q02 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Commodity Market
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