For a considerable time, long-only index funds have been suspected of being responsible for price increases on agricultural futures markets, particularly those for grain. Utilizing partial equilibrium concepts, we analyze the market impacts of long-only index funds. Our analysis reveals that...

Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus wirtschaftsethischer Sicht Stellung zur gesellschaftlichen De-batte über die Finanzspekulation mit Agrarrohstoffen. Im ersten Abschnitt werden die realwirtschaftlichen Ursachen der starken Preissteigerungen erläutert, die in den letzten Jahren zu verzeichnen waren. Im...

This article sketches an ethics of (financial) speculation in futures markets. (1) It identi-fies an intentionalistic fallacy prevalent in moral criticisms of speculation in general and of financial speculation in particular. (2) It scrutinizes the degree to which the recent debate on financial...

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...

Dieser Artikel entfaltet seine Argumentation in drei Schritten: Erstens wird rekonstruiert, wie Adam Smith der zeitgenössischen Kritik an der Agrarspekulation argumentativ begegnete. Zweitens wird skizziert, wie man der gegenwärtigen Kritik an der (vermeintlichen) Agrarspekulation durch...