Financialization of Commodity Markets
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The Financialization of Commodities
Session Chair: Michael Ehrmann
The Stock Market Price of Commodity Risk
Presentation: Martijn Boons, Frans de Roon and Marta Szymanowska
Causes and Implications of Shifts in Financial Participation in Commodity Markets
Presentation: Bassam Fattouh and Lavan Mahadeva
Inter-linkages between Physical and Financial Markets
Session Chair: Ron Alquist
The Informational Role of Spot Prices and Inventories
Presentation: Thomas Lee, James Smith, and Rex Thompson
Does Paper Oil Matter?
Presentation: Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel Robe
Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Commodity Futures and Swaps Markets
Presentation: Commissioner Scott O’Malia
Index-Investment and Commodity Prices
Session Chair: Bahattin Buyuksahin
Effects of Index-Fund Investing on Commodity Futures Prices
Presentation: James Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu
Energy Futures Prices and Commodity Index Investment: New Evidence from Firm-Level Position Data
Presentation: Scott Irwin and Dwight Sanders
Speculation in Commodity Markets
Session Chair: Mark Kruger
The Role of Speculation in Oil Markets: What Have we Learned so Far?
Presentation: Lutz Kilian, Bassam Fattouh and Lavan Mahadeva
The Financialization of Commodity Markets
Presentation: Wei Xiong and Ing-Haw Cheng