Emergence of Commodity Derivatives as Defensive Instrument in Portfolio Risk Hedging: A Case of Indian Commodity Markets

This paper empirically examines whether commodity derivatives can be used as an alternative investment asset in India where commodity markets are at emerging state and provides the same diversification benefit as they provide in developed commodity markets. In India only commodity futures are preval...

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Main Author: Singhal Shelly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-04-01
Series:Studies in Business and Economics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2017-0015