Commodity Investing

Annual Review of Financial Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 447-467

  Rouwenhorst, K Geert ^a   Tang, Ke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

commodity futures; risk premium; theory of normal backwardation; theory of storage; trader positions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877601217     PISSN: 19411367     EISSN: 19411375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-financial-110311-101716     Document Type: Review

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