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The impact of international hot money in international commodity future markets during the Subprime mortgage crisis

  • Qing Ye*
  • , Liyan Han
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • College of Economic and Management
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Behavior of traders including investors and speculators in commodity future markets are studied before and after the subprime mortgage crisis. We put our attention on quantity of traders hold positions instead of price volatility or capital return rate of commodity future markets. By standardize correlation coefficients of net positions we try to quantify the impact of speculative funds on behalf of international hot money in international commodity futures markets in the subprime mortgage crisis. Parametric and non-parametric tests are used in this paper. The empirical results reveal that investment directions of speculators do change in crisis and they connect more tightly with markets compared with investors for that their find more opportunities and higher return rate during the Subprime mortgage crisis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEngineering Materials, Energy, Management and Control
Pages744-747
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 International Conference on Engineering Materials, Energy, Management and Control, MEMC2011 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Jan 2011 → 23 Jan 2011

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume171-172
ISSN (Print)1022-6680

Conference

Conference2011 International Conference on Engineering Materials, Energy, Management and Control, MEMC2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/01/11 → 23/01/11

Keywords

  • Adjusted correlation
  • Contagion
  • Speculative funds
  • Subprime mortgage crisis

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