Do Commodity Futures Help Forecast Spot Prices? /

We assess the spot price forecasting performance of 10 commodity futures at various horizons up to two years and test whether this performance is affected by market conditions. We reject efficient markets based on in-sample tests but, out-of-sample, we find that the forecast from the futures market...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reichsfeld, David
Other Authors: Roache, Shaun
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/254
Online Access:Full text available on IMF