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News Releases and Updates
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| | | 7/1/2010
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Placing the 2006/08 Commodity Price Boom into Perspective | | Study by John Baffes and Tassos Haiotis of The World Bank Development Prospect Group. This paper argues that the use of commodities by financial investors (the so-called “financialization of commodities”) may have been partly responsible for the 2007/08 spike.
John Baffnes and Tassos Haiotis | |
| | 10/1/2009
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Oil Speculation: The Impact on Prices, Inflation, Interest Rates and the Economy | | Study by Emmanuel I. S. Ajuzie and Roberto M. Ike of Lincoln University for the Journal of Business and Economics Research. This study recommends that oil speculation should be discouraged and trade relations be based purely on the principles of comparative advantage.
Emmanuel I.S. Ajuzie and Robert M. Ike | |
| | 9/1/2009
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Index Investing and the FInancialization of Commodities | | Study by Ke Tang of Renmin University of China and Wei Xiong of Princeton University. This paper examines the financialization of commodities precipitated by the rapid growth of index investment to the commodities markets since the early 2000s.
Ke Tang and Wei Xiong | |
| | 8/26/2009
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Who is in the Oil Futures Market and How Has It Changed? | | Study by Kenneth B. Medlock III and Amy Myers Jaffe: James A. Baker II Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Kenneth B. Medlock III and Amy Myers Jaffe | |
| | | 2/4/2009
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The 2008 Commodities Bubble: Assessing the Damage to the United States and Its Citizens | | Study by Michael W. Masters and Adam K. White
Michael W. Masters and Adam K. White | |
| | 1/7/2009
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The 2006-2008 oil bubble: Evidence of speculation, and prediction | | An analysis of oil prices in USD and in other major currencies that diagnoses unsustainable faster-than-exponential behavior. This supports the hypothesis that the recent oil price run-up was amplified by speculative behavior of the type found during a bubble-like expansion.
Didier Sornette, Ryan Woodard, and Wei-Xing Zhou | |
| | 11/14/2008
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Commodities Market Speculation: The Risk to Food Security and Agriculture | | According to a new report by IATP, excessive speculation in agriculture commodity markets has played a major role in the rapid rise and fall in global food prices, contributing to a massive increase in undernourished people and commodity market instability.
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy | |
| | 10/1/2008
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The Commodities Market Bubble: Money Manager Capitalism and the Financialization of Commodities | | Money manager capitalism – characterized by highly leveraged funds seeking maximum returns in an environment that systematically underprices risk – has resulted in a series of boom-and-bust cycles in equities, real estate, and commodities. Because subsequent cycles have been increasingly damaging to the broader economy, we are now at the point where we are experiencing the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression.
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College | |
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