Convective Risk Flows in Commodity Futures Markets

Ing-Haw Cheng, Andrei Kirilenko and Wei Xiong

Review of Finance, 2015, vol. 19, issue 5, 1733-1781

Abstract: We study the joint responses of commodity future prices and positions of various trader groups to changes of the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) before and after the recent financial crisis. Financial traders reduced their net long positions during the crisis in response to market distress, whereas hedgers facilitated this by reducing their net short positions as prices fell. This "convective risk flow" induced by the greater distress of financial institutions led to a change in the allocation of risk with hedgers holding more risk than they did previously. The presence of such a risk flow confirms the market impact of financial traders conditional on trades they initiate.

Date: 2015
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