Commodity Markets
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Financial Markets".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 727
Special Issue Editor
Interests: international finance; energy finance and economics; emerging and developed stock markets; stock markets integration versus segmentation; portfolio diversification; analysis of financial markets
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The relationship between commodities prices and the business cycle, including variables such as real GDP, industrial production, unemployment, inflation, and market uncertainty, has often been debated in the macroeconomic literature. The commodity market can be represented as the pinnacle of cross-sectional financial asset prices, and price variations due to seasonal variations, dramatic market fluctuations, regulatory decisions, or technological shocks may adversely impact producers who use commodities as input. Additionally, commodities price fluctuations may spread to other sectors in the economy via contagion effects. Besides, stronger investor interest in commodities may create closer integration with conventional asset markets; as a result, the financialization process also enhances the correlation between commodity markets and financial markets. The present Special Issue aims to answer the following research questions: What are the interactions between commodities and stock market sentiment? Do some of these markets move together over time? and Did the financialization in energy commodities occur after the 2008 global financial crisis? These questions are essential to understand whether commodities are driven only by their fundamentals, or whether there is also a systemic component influenced by the volatility present within the stock markets.
Prof. Dr. Khaled Guesmi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- financialization of commodities
- stock market volatility
- stock market sentiment
- market speculation
- financial crises
