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Options trading in agricultural futures markets: A reasonable instrument of risk hedging, or a driver of agricultural price volatility?

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  • Glauben, Thomas
  • Prehn, Sören
  • Dannemann, Tebbe
  • Brümmer, Bernhard
  • Loy, Jens-Peter

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Options trading is increasingly important in more volatile agricultural markets. Options allow for unilateral hedging of price risks, e. g. against falling prices only, and are an indispensable risk management instrument for farmers and grain dealers. Concerns that soaring options trading could spark incremental volatility of international agricultural commodity prices have not been empirically verified to date. Econometric assessments for the MATIF grain maize market suggest that option trading does not have a volatility increasing effect.

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  • Glauben, Thomas & Prehn, Sören & Dannemann, Tebbe & Brümmer, Bernhard & Loy, Jens-Peter, 2014. "Options trading in agricultural futures markets: A reasonable instrument of risk hedging, or a driver of agricultural price volatility?," IAMO Policy Briefs 20e, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:iamopb:20e
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    1. Svanidze, Miranda & Götz, Linde, 2019. "Determinants of spatial market efficiency of grain markets in Russia," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).

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