The rapid growth of exchange traded products (ETPs) has raised concerns about their implications for financial stability. A case in point is the abrupt market crash of short volatility strategies on February 5th 2018. In this paper, we describe this “Volmageddon” event and illustrate the...

This paper studies the dynamic interaction between the net positions of traders and risk premiums in commodity futures markets. Short-term position changes are mainly driven by the liquidity demands of non-commercial traders, while long-term variation is primarily driven by the hedging demands...

In this paper, we empirically investigate warrant price behavior in the Chinese market – the largest warrant market in the world in terms of trading volume since 2006. By examining warrant return properties, volatility behavior, and pricing errors, we document a stylized fact that call...

In this paper, we examine the role that the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) plays in the global price discovery of soybean futures. We employ Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) and Vector Error Correction (VEC) models on the returns of the DCE and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean...