Evolution of comovement between commodity futures: does biofuels matter?

In this study, the linkages of commodity futures are investigated for the period 1988:M1-2012:M4. Monthly futures prices for nine commodities are utilized throughout the empirical analyses. As the empirical approach, wavelet analysis is chosen to investigate the comovement of commodity futures. By u...

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Main Author: Dinçer DEDEOĞLU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2014-06-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/991.pdf
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description In this study, the linkages of commodity futures are investigated for the period 1988:M1-2012:M4. Monthly futures prices for nine commodities are utilized throughout the empirical analyses. As the empirical approach, wavelet analysis is chosen to investigate the comovement of commodity futures. By using wavelet based measure of correlation, the correlation between commodity futures are determined both in time and frequency domain. The results indicate that correlations are low for short, medium and long-run. I also find evidence of a tendency towards an increase in correlations after 2008. This can be the result of the global crisis that has an effect on feedstock costs and energy input prices by putting front a channel through biofuels that links energy and agricultural commodities by increasing the correlation between these commodities after 2008.
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spelling doaj.art-3cb51a79751047a0aa14b83ddf07e2272022-12-21T21:52:32ZengGeneral Association of Economists from RomaniaTheoretical and Applied Economics1841-86781844-00292014-06-01XXI6375018418678Evolution of comovement between commodity futures: does biofuels matter?Dinçer DEDEOĞLU0 Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey In this study, the linkages of commodity futures are investigated for the period 1988:M1-2012:M4. Monthly futures prices for nine commodities are utilized throughout the empirical analyses. As the empirical approach, wavelet analysis is chosen to investigate the comovement of commodity futures. By using wavelet based measure of correlation, the correlation between commodity futures are determined both in time and frequency domain. The results indicate that correlations are low for short, medium and long-run. I also find evidence of a tendency towards an increase in correlations after 2008. This can be the result of the global crisis that has an effect on feedstock costs and energy input prices by putting front a channel through biofuels that links energy and agricultural commodities by increasing the correlation between these commodities after 2008. http://store.ectap.ro/articole/991.pdf wavelet analysiscomovementenergy futuresagricultural commodity futuresbiofuels
spellingShingle Dinçer DEDEOĞLU
Evolution of comovement between commodity futures: does biofuels matter?
Theoretical and Applied Economics
wavelet analysis
comovement
energy futures
agricultural commodity futures
biofuels
title Evolution of comovement between commodity futures: does biofuels matter?
title_full Evolution of comovement between commodity futures: does biofuels matter?
title_fullStr Evolution of comovement between commodity futures: does biofuels matter?
title_full_unstemmed Evolution of comovement between commodity futures: does biofuels matter?
title_short Evolution of comovement between commodity futures: does biofuels matter?
title_sort evolution of comovement between commodity futures does biofuels matter
topic wavelet analysis
comovement
energy futures
agricultural commodity futures
biofuels
url http://store.ectap.ro/articole/991.pdf
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