New Evidence on the Financialization of Commodity Markets
44 Pages Posted: 25 Jan 2012 Last revised: 19 Nov 2014
Date Written: November 18, 2014
Abstract
This paper uses a novel dataset of Commodity-Linked Notes (CLNs) to examine the impact of the flows of financial investors on commodity futures prices. Investor flows into and out of CLNs are passed to and withdrawn from the futures markets via issuers’ trades to hedge their CLN liabilities. The flows are not based on information about futures price movements, but nonetheless cause increases and decreases in commodity futures prices when they are passed through to and withdrawn from the futures markets. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that non-information based financial investments have important impacts on commodity prices.
Keywords: financialization, commodity-linked notes, commodity structured products, commodity index investors, commodity futures
JEL Classification: G13, G14, G18
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