Spot and futures commodity markets and the unbiasedness hypothesis - evidence from a novel panel unit root test

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1695-1707

  Czudaj, Robert ^a,b   Beckmann, Joscha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b FOM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

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