The Economics of Commodity Markets

The Economics of Commodity Markets (The Wiley Finance Series)

As commodity markets have continued their expansion an extensive and complex financial industry has developed to service them. This industry includes hundreds of participating firms, including asset managers, brokers, consultants, verification agencies and a myriad of other institutions. Universities and other training institutions have responded to this rapid expansion of commodity markets as well as their substantial future growth potential by launching specialized courses on the subject.

The Economics of Commodity Markets attempts to bridge the gap between academics and working professionals by way of a textbook that is both theoretically informative and practical. Based in part on the authors’ teaching experience of commodity finance at the University Paris Dauphine, the book covers all important commodity markets topics and includes coverage of recent topics such as financial applications and intuitive economic reasoning.

The book is composed of three parts that cover: commodity market dynamics, commodities and the business cycle, and commodities and fundamental value. The key original approach to the subject matter lies in a shift away from the descriptive to the econometric analysis of commodity markets. Information on market trends of commodities is presented in the first part, with a strong emphasis on the quantitative treatment of that information in the remaining two parts of the book. Readers are provided with a clear and succinct exposition of up-to-date financial economic and econometric methods as these apply to commodity markets. In addition a number of useful empirical applications are introduced and discussed.

This book is a self-contained offering, discussing all key methods and insights without descending into superfluous technicalities. All explanations are structured in an accessible manner, permitting any reader with a basic understanding of mathematics and finance to work their way through all parts of the book without having to resort to external sources.

Table of Contents

PART I COMMODITY MARKET DYNAMICS 1
1 Individual Dynamics: From Trends to Risks 3
2 Cross-Asset Linkages 69

PART II COMMODITIES AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE 115
3 The Reaction of Commodity Markets to Economic News 117
4 Economic Regimes and Commodity Markets as an Asset Class 145

PART III COMMODITIES AND FUNDAMENTAL VALUE 169
5 Cross-Commodity Linkages 177
6 Cointegration with Traditional Asset Markets 241
7 Cointegration with Industrial Production and Inflation 269