Index Trading and Agricultural Commodity Prices: A Panel Granger Causality Analysis1

International Economics

Volumn 126-127, Issue , 2011, Pages 51-71

  Capelle Blancard, Gunther ^a   Coulibaly, Dramane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b CEPII ^*

Author keywords

Financialization; Food Crisis; G10; Index Funds; Panel Granger Causality; Q10; Soft Commodities; Speculation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073052544     PISSN: 21107017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2110-7017(13)60036-0     Document Type: Article

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