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A model of financialization of commodities

Journal

Journal of Finance

Subject

Finance

Publishing details

Journal of Finance 2016 Vol 71:4 p 1511-1556

Authors / Editors

Basak S;Pavlova A

Biographies

Suleyman Basak Anna Pavlova

Publisher

Publication Year

2016

Abstract

A sharp increase in the popularity of commodity investing in the past decade has triggered an unprecedented inflow of institutional funds into commodity futures markets, referred to as the financialization of commodities. In this paper, we explore the effects of financialization in a model that features institutional investors alongside traditional futures markets participants. The institutional investors care about their performance relative to a commodity index. We find that in the presence of institutional investors prices and volatilities of all commodity futures go up, but more so for the index futures than for nonindex ones. The correlations amongst commodity futures as well as in equity-commodity correlations also increase, with higher increases for index commodities. Within a framework additionally incorporating storage, we show how financial markets transmit shocks not only to futures prices but also to commodity spot prices and inventories. Commodity spot prices and inventories go up with financialization. In the presence of institutional investors shocks to any index commodity spill over to all storable commodity prices.

Keywords

Asset pricing; Indexing; Commodities; Futures; Spot prices; Institutions; Money management; Asset class

Available on ECCH

No


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