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Does Speculation Make Commodity Spot Markets More Volatile?

Publication Date
2022-May-02
Authors
Cao, Yixiao Carl
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This paper examines how increased speculator participation in the commodity
futures market affects spot price volatility. Consistent with results from the
majority of existing literature on this subject, I find no evidence that speculators
destabilize the commodity spot market. More...

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Growth econometrics

Publication Date
2004-October-22
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Durlauf, Steven N.
Johnson, Paul A.
Temple, Jonathan R. W.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods, they are united in the common goals of first, identifying interesting contemporaneous...

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