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The Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Returns / Gary B. Gorton, Fumio Hayashi, K. Geert Rouwenhorst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorton, Gary B.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13249.
- NBER working paper series no. w13249
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.
- Summary:
- Commodity futures risk premiums vary across commodities and over time depending on the level of physical inventories, as predicted by the Theory of Storage. Using a comprehensive dataset on 31 commodity futures and physical inventories between 1969 and 2006, we show that the convenience yield is a decreasing, non-linear relationship of inventories. Price measures, such as the futures basis, prior futures returns, and spot returns reflect the state of inventories and are informative about commodity futures risk premiums. The excess returns to Spot and Futures Momentum and Backwardation strategies stem in part from the selection of commodities when inventories are low. Positions of futures markets participants are correlated with prices and inventory signals, but we reject the Keynesian "hedging pressure" hypothesis that these positions are an important determinant of risk premiums.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2007.
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