Price Discovery in some Primary Commodity Markets in India

Raushan Kumar ()

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Abstract: With the onset of wide-ranging economic reforms in India in 1991, agents have been exposed to increased price risk in commodity markets. Futures markets are one important instrument for reducing price risk, and in this study the focus on the price discovery role of futures markets. Employing daily price data for nine crops for period 2009-2014, it is found that strong causation running from futures to spot prices. Since spot prices impinge on the storage and cropping pattern decisions of farmers, the results imply that providing information on futures price to farmers on a daily basis would enable them to take more efficient decisions in the present.

Keywords: Futures markets; spot markets; primary commodities; price discovery; economic reforms; employment; price risk; price data; crop; cropping pattern; spot prices; trading; agriculture; farming. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11
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