A Study of the Efficiency and Unbiasedness in NCDEX: A Case Study of Guar Gum
Presented at XI Capital Market Conference, IICM Mumbai, 21-22, December 2012
Posted: 9 Nov 2012 Last revised: 1 Jan 2013
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A Study of the Efficiency and Unbiasedness in NCDEX: A Case Study of Guar Gum
A Study of the Efficiency and Unbiasedness in NCDEX: A Case Study of Guar Gum
Date Written: November 8, 2012
Abstract
The paper aims to study the market efficiency, unbiasedness among Guar gum futures contracts traded at National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd (NCDEX). The study has tested the market efficiency and unbiasedness with different maturities using cointegration analysis, and short-term market efficiency, using an error correction model and GARCH-M-ECM. The results suggest that futures market for guar gum is inefficient, which may be caused by over-speculation or market manipulation. The results indicate an urgent need to provide more powers to FMC to regulate the market and penalize any insider trading, cartelization and price manipulations.
Keywords: cointegration, market efficiency, futures market, Guar gum
JEL Classification: C14, C32, G14
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