Although prices in the agricultural commodity futures markets have risen significantly in recent years, the results of this study support those of many previous studies that concluded that investments of commodity index traders and speculators in the futures markets are not the major causes of...

This paper tests the impact of the commodity transaction tax (CTT) introduced in Indian commodity market since July 2013, particularly on market liquidity and volatility aspects. We rely on a distinctive design of the tax, which is imposed only on non agri-commodities. Here, we considered Gold...