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标题：Commodity futures markets: are they an effective price risk management tool for the European wheat supply chain?
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作者：Cesar Revoredo-Giha ; Marco Zuppiroli
期刊名称：Bio-based and Applied Economics
印刷版ISSN：2280-6172
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：237-255
DOI：10.13128/BAE-12952
语种：English
出版社：Bio-based and Applied Economics
摘要：The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its causes has brought renewed interest in futures markets. The paper analyses the European wheat futures markets (feed and milling) and the Chicago Board of Trade’s wheat contract as a comparison. Although the main purpose of the paper is to analyse whether futures markets are still useful for hedging (considering the demands from different market participants), implicitly this can be seen as testing whether the increasing presence of speculation has made futures markets divorced from physical markets. The results indicate that hedging with futures markets is still a viable alternative for dealing with price risk. This is particularly true in short period hedges (e.g. merchants and processors), where the basis seems to have been affected by the observed price instability.
关键词：futures markets;wheat;hedging;commodity prices;price risk