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Commodity Index Futures

Commodity Index Futures is a type of financial derivative contract that obligates the buyer to purchase, and the seller to sell, a standardized basket of commodities at a predetermined future date and price, with its value derived from the performance of a specific commodity index.

117

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8.6K

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193

Authors

158

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

30

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Publications

117

Index Investment and the Financialization of Commodities

Ke Tang, Wei Xiong · Financial Analysts Journal · 2012 · 1.3K citations

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A Model of Financialization of Commodities

Suleyman Basak, Anna Pavlova · The Journal of Finance · 2016 · 596 citations · Full text

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Index Funds, Financialization, and Commodity Futures Markets

Scott H. Irwin, Dwight R. Sanders · Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy · 2011 · 499 citations · Full text

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Devil or Angel? The Role of Speculation in the Recent Commodity Price Boom (and Bust)

Scott H. Irwin, Dwight R. Sanders, Robert P. Merrin · Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics · 2009 · 346 citations · Full text

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Commodity Index Investing and Commodity Futures Prices

Hans R. Stoll, Robert E. Whaley · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009 · 276 citations · Full text

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Authors

193

  1. SH
    Scott H. Irwin

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    20 publications · 2.2K citations

    17

    h-index

  2. DR
    Dwight R. Sanders

    Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States

    15 publications · 1.9K citations

    13

    h-index

  3. PG
    Philip Garcia

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    5 publications · 292 citations

    5

    h-index

  4. KT
    Ke Tang

    Tsinghua University, China

    4 publications · 1.5K citations

    4

    h-index

  5. RP
    Robert P. Merrin

    Maastricht University, Netherlands

    4 publications · 631 citations

    4

    h-index

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Institutions

158

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    18 h-index

    28 publications

    2.7K citations

  2. Southern Illinois University Carbondale

    Carbondale, United States

    11 h-index

    11 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    1.9K citations

  4. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

    Washington D.C., United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    177 citations

  5. Southern Illinois University System

    Carbondale, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    88 citations

  6. Pusan National University

    Busan, South Korea

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    310 citations

  7. Maastricht University

    Maastricht, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    573 citations

  8. Fudan University

    Shanghai, China

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    93 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 21 publications · 967 citations

    14

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  2. Journal of Futures Markets

    8 publications · 231 citations

    8

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  3. The Journal of Alternative Investments

    6 publications · 447 citations

    6

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  4. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

    5 publications · 87 citations

    5

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  5. Financial Analysts Journal

    FAJ · 5 publications · 1.4K citations

    5

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