 Effects of speculation and interest rates in a “carry trade” model of commodity pricesJournal of International Money and Finance, 2014, vol. 42, issue C, 88-112 Abstract: The paper presents and estimates a model of the prices of oil and other storable commodities, a model that can be characterized as reflecting the carry trade. It focuses on speculative factors, here defined as the trade-off between interest rates on the one hand and market participants' expectations of future price changes on the other hand. It goes beyond past research by bringing to bear new data sources: survey data to measure expectations of future changes in commodity prices and options data to measure perceptions of risk. Some evidence is found of a negative effect of interest rates on the demand for inventories and thereby on commodity prices and positive effects of expected future price gains on inventory demand and thereby on today's commodity prices. Keywords: Carry trade; Commodity; Commodities; Real; Interest rate; Oil; Petroleum; Mineral; Volatility; Inventory; Inventories; Monetary; Spot price; Spread; Overshooting; Futures; Speculation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jimfin:v:42:y:2014:i:c:p:88-112 DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2013.08.006 Access Statistics for this article Journal of International Money and Finance is currently edited by J. R. Lothian More articles in Journal of International Money and Finance from Elsevier |
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