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Financial Speculation Impact on Agricultural and Other Commodity Return Volatility: Implications for Sustainable Development and Food Security

Agriculture, 2022
Global commodity markets, due to major health crises, political tension, sanctions, growing demand, and other global supply and demand factors, are currently particularly unstable.
Algirdas Justinas Staugaitis, Bernardas Vaznonis   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nonlinear price transmission and asynchronous price bubbles: empirical evidence from China’s agricultural futures and spot markets

Journal of Applied Economics
Previous studies on commodity price bubbles mainly focused on futures markets and ignored the performance of spot markets. Using the price data for corn and soybeans in China, this study identifies the exact bubble dates for the futures and spot markets,
Qianqian Mao, Yanjun Ren, Jens-Peter Loy
doaj   +1 more source

Novel information fusion model for simulating the effect of global public events on the Sino-US soybean futures market

Data Science and Management, 2021
Trade frictions and global public health security events have made it more difficult for investors to generate positive returns from the Sino-US soybean futures markets.
Qing Zhu, Yinglin Ruan, Shan Liu, Lin Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Price Spillover Effects in U.S.-China Cotton and Cotton Yarn Futures Markets Under Emergency Events

Agriculture
As a strategic material second only to grain, cotton serves both as a vital agricultural commodity and a key industrial crop. With the increasing frequency of global shocks and the deepening financialization of commodity markets, price linkages among ...
Cheng Gui, Chunjie Qi, Yani Dong, Yueyuan Yang   +3 more
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Margin call risk and leverage constraints: exploring investment horizons and low-risk anomalies in futures markets [PDF]

Seonmul yeongu
Purpose – In futures markets, margin trading not only relaxes leverage constraints but also entails the risk of margin calls. Therefore, existing studies provide inconsistent evidence on low-risk anomalies, raising challenges in understanding leverage ...
Yonghwan Jo, Dain Jung
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Short-Term Speculation Effects on Agricultural Commodity Returns and Volatility in the European Market Prior to and during the Pandemic

Agriculture, 2022
Motivated by increased agricultural commodity price volatility and surges during the past decade, we investigated whether financial speculation is to blame.
Algirdas Justinas Staugaitis, Bernardas Vaznonis   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Data‐Driven Materials Science for Energy‐Sustainable Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Data‐driven approaches powered by artificial intelligence are transforming materials discovery for energy sustainability. This review examines how auto‐generated high‐quality materials databases and domain‐specific language models accelerate research in photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, batteries and magnetic materials. Applications involve extraction of
Jacqueline M. Cole
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the factors affecting dairy commodity returns: the case of European dairy markets

Business, Management and Economics Engineering
Purpose – motivated by the price spikes and booms in major commodities markets around the world, this study looks into the factors that affect the variance in returns from dairy futures contracts.
Algirdas Justinas Staugaitis, Česlovas Christauskas   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Money: The Forecasting Ability of CFTC Large Traders in Agricultural Futures Markets

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009
The forecasting content of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Commitments of Traders (COT) report is investigated. Bivariate Granger causality tests show very little evidence that traders' positions are useful in forecasting (leading) returns in ...
Dwight R. Sanders, Scott H. Irwin, Robert P. Merrin   +2 more
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China's Low‐Carbon Energy Transition Over the Past Two Decades: Experiences and Implications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
China's low‐carbon energy transition features a brief decline and subsequent rebound in coal consumption, alongside the rapid expansion of renewable energy. This study develops a stage‐based analytical framework to explain this evolution from the perspectives of economic development, energy security, and environmental sustainability, revealing how ...
Yu Liu, Zhiyu Tian, Zhengxian Zhang, Xinbei Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source