Time Varying Risk Premia in Futures Markets /

This paper undertakes an econometric investigation into the presence of risk premium in commodity futures markets. The statistical tests are derived from a formal model of asset pricing and are applied to futures prices in a variety of commodity markets. The results suggest that for several commodit...

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Автор: Kaminsky, Graciela
Інші автори: Kumar, Manmohan
Формат: Журнал
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1990.
Серія:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1990/116
Онлайн доступ:Full text available on IMF
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