A historical perspective of the informational content of commodity futures
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.12.002
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Q02; L72; C13; Premium; Theory of storage; Seemingly unrelated equations;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q02 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Commodity Market
- L72 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction - - - Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Other Nonrenewable Resources
- C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
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