Commodity Speculation

Commodity Speculation is a financial activity in which investors assume price risk in commodity markets by taking long or short positions in commodity derivatives or physical assets with the primary objective of profiting from anticipated price fluctuations rather than securing the underlying commodity for use.

485

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41K

Citations

801

Authors

497

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

125

Parents

Commodity Markets

Children

Algorithmic Trading In CommoditiesCommitment Of Traders AnalysisExchange-traded Commodity FundsFutures Price VolatilityHedging PressureMarket ContangoOpen Interest Dynamics

Publications

485

Rational Expectations and the Theory of Price Movements

John F. Muth · Econometrica · 1961 · 5.6K citations

Social Sciences, Business Economics, Economics +11

THE ROLE OF INVENTORIES AND SPECULATIVE TRADING IN THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR CRUDE OIL

Lutz Kilian, Daniel Murphy · Journal of Applied Econometrics · 2013 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Economics, Natural Resource Economics +16

Index Investment and the Financialization of Commodities

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

Agriculture, Economics, Commodity Markets +16

Speculation and Economic Stability

Nicholas Kaldor · The Review of Economic Studies · 1939 · 899 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Financial Economics +14

RETRACTED: Is Bitcoin a better safe-haven investment than gold and commodities?

Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad, Elie Bouri, David Roubaud et al. · International Review of Financial Analysis · 2019 · 687 citations

Business, Economics, Finance +12

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Authors

801

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Scott H. Irwin
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
16 publications · 1.5K citations
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Dwight R. Sanders
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States
11 publications · 1.3K citations
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Lutz Kilian
University of Michigan, United States
5 publications · 1.9K citations
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Xiaoli Etienne
West Virginia University, United States
5 publications · 215 citations
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Philip Garcia
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
5 publications · 234 citations
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Institutions

497

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Venues

SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 45 publications · 1.9K citations
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Energy Economics
26 publications · 3.2K citations
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Journal of Futures Markets
26 publications · 953 citations
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International Review of Financial Analysis
IRFA · 14 publications · 1.5K citations
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Journal of commodity markets
12 publications · 520 citations
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