We use variance decompositions from high-dimensional vector autoregressions to characterize connectedness in 19 key commodity return volatilities, 2011-2016. We study both static (full-sample) and dynamic (rolling-sample) connectedness. We summarize and visualize the results using tools from...

An increasing number of firms buy commodities at spot markets characterized by price volatility. Due to different market regimes (e.g., bull and bear), spot price dynamics are non-stationary and only partially observable; neither the underlying stochastic price process, nor its parameters are...

This study empirically examines the market which reacts first markets in India by assessing the relationship between the spot and future prices of agricultural commodities such as Soya bean, Chana, Maize, Jeera and Turmeric for a period from January 2010 to March 2015 traded in NCDEX, Empirical...

This paper examined the lead-lag relationship between the futures market and spot market for the metal commodity market during the sample period January 2010 through August 2014. The econometric tools like Unit root tests, Johansen co-integration test and Pairwise Granger Causality tests were...

This study examines the existence of Cointegration between the future and spot prices of highly traded currencies in India like USD, EURO, GBP, and JPY. The spot prices are collected from RBI reference Prices and future prices from MCX-SX (Multi Commodity Exchange-Stock Exchange) from October...

Due to the fact that oil prices had a falling outlook after the global crisis, modeling oil market prices has been a topic of interest among researchers. The goals of this study are to investigate the recession or growth periods of oil futures markets using Markov switching autoregressive...

Against the well-established fact that the usefulness and suitability of futures trading in developing the underlying agricultural commodity market, especially in an agriculture-based country like India are been questioned by various bodies. Through this work, it has been analyzing the role of...

On agricultural commodity futures, there is always been a doubt, expressed by different bodies and experts on the usefulness and suitability of futures contract in developing in the underlying agricultural commodity market, especially in an agricultural based economy like India. Here an attempt...

Price discovery and risk management are two major important economic functions of futures market. Price discovery gives competitive reference (futures) price from which spot price can be derived. The study examines price discovery and spill-over impact in the Indian futures market using metal...