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Commodity futures markets: are they an effective price risk management tool for the European wheat supply chain?
Bio-based and Applied Economics
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Commodity futures markets: are they an effective price risk management tool for the European wheat supply chain?
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Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
Zuppiroli, Marco |
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futures markets
wheat hedging commodity prices |
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| Description |
The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its causes has brought renewed interest in futures markets. The paper analyses the European wheat futures markets (feed and milling) and the Chicago Board of Trade’s wheat contract as a comparison. Although the main purpose of the paper is to analyse whether futures markets are still useful for hedging (considering the demands from different market participants), implicitly this can be seen as testing whether the increasing presence of speculation has made futures markets divorced from physical markets. The results indicate that hedging with futures markets is still a viable alternative for dealing with price risk. This is particularly true in short period hedges (e.g. merchants and processors), where the basis seems to have been affected by the observed price instability.
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Firenze University Press
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2013-10-26
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3244
10.13128/BAE-12952 |
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Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013): Between Crisis and Development: Which Role for the Bio-Economy; 237-255
2280-6172 2280-6180 |
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eng
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https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3244/3244
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