The Distribution of Commodity Futures: A Test of the Generalized Hyperbolic Process

Debdatta Pal

Applied Economics, 2024, vol. 56, issue 15, 1763-1783

Abstract: Using daily closing price data spreading over 3 April 1990, to 5 May 2020, this study explores the skewness and excess kurtosis behaviour across energy, metals, and agricultural commodity futures. Subsequently, it compares the fitting of an empirical distribution under normal distribution assumption with those under the Generalized Hyperbolic distribution. The generalized hyperbolic distribution includes Hyperbolic distribution, Variance-Gamma distribution, and Normal Inverse Gaussian distribution. The results show that the Normal Inverse Gaussian distribution for natural gas, gold, platinum, copper, sugar, and feeder cattle futures captures skewness as well as excess kurtosis of the daily logarithmic returns. The findings are robust to the sub-sample analysis.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2023.2177598

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