Linkages Among Commodity Futures Markets and Dynamic Welfare Analysis

This study constructs dynamic welfare measures for a system of futures markets that express the allocative efficiency of a particular market as a function of its accuracy and speed of adjustment following a shock to the system. The system comprises future prices for T-bills, exchange rates (German m...

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Veröffentlicht in:The review of economics and statistics 1990-11, Vol.72 (4), p.631-639
Hauptverfasser: Rausser, Gordon C., Walraven, Nicholas A.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This study constructs dynamic welfare measures for a system of futures markets that express the allocative efficiency of a particular market as a function of its accuracy and speed of adjustment following a shock to the system. The system comprises future prices for T-bills, exchange rates (German mark, British pound, Canadian dollar and yen), and agricultural commodities (corn, wheat, and cotton) for delivery in 1981 and 1982. The results suggest that, although agricultural, exchange, and financial markets all overreact to a disturbance, agricultural markets do so to a much greater degree. Owing to their much greater size, however, the welfare loss arising from the overshooting is likely to be much larger for interest rate and exchange markets.
ISSN:0034-6535
1530-9142
DOI:10.2307/2109603