Recent years witnessed commodity prices increases which have fostered research-works on their predictability and a renewed interest of practitioners and policy makers. The objective of this paper is to test the predictive ability of futures prices on the underlying spot prices by taking corn, which is one of the most important agricultural commodities in terms of trading volumes and for its role in the dietary regime of many countries. We consider the corn futures on the CBOT in the period May 1998-December 2011 so as to extend previous studies on this market and to assess a possible effect of the financial crisis. Our results do not emphasize a role for the latter and, although we do not find evidence of efficiency and unbiasedness, the futures corn price turns out to be the best predictor of the spot price if compared with most used alternatives.

Efficiency and unbiasedness of corn futures markets: New evidence across the financial crisis / Pederzoli, Chiara; Torricelli, Costanza. - In: APPLIED FINANCIAL ECONOMICS. - ISSN 1466-4305. - ELETTRONICO. - 23:(2013), pp. 1853-1863. [10.1080/09603107.2013.856997]

Efficiency and unbiasedness of corn futures markets: New evidence across the financial crisis

PEDERZOLI, Chiara;TORRICELLI, Costanza
2013

Abstract

Recent years witnessed commodity prices increases which have fostered research-works on their predictability and a renewed interest of practitioners and policy makers. The objective of this paper is to test the predictive ability of futures prices on the underlying spot prices by taking corn, which is one of the most important agricultural commodities in terms of trading volumes and for its role in the dietary regime of many countries. We consider the corn futures on the CBOT in the period May 1998-December 2011 so as to extend previous studies on this market and to assess a possible effect of the financial crisis. Our results do not emphasize a role for the latter and, although we do not find evidence of efficiency and unbiasedness, the futures corn price turns out to be the best predictor of the spot price if compared with most used alternatives.
2013
23
1853
1863
Efficiency and unbiasedness of corn futures markets: New evidence across the financial crisis / Pederzoli, Chiara; Torricelli, Costanza. - In: APPLIED FINANCIAL ECONOMICS. - ISSN 1466-4305. - ELETTRONICO. - 23:(2013), pp. 1853-1863. [10.1080/09603107.2013.856997]
Pederzoli, Chiara; Torricelli, Costanza
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