Economics of commodity markets.

• Position: Conferences

The NBER held a meeting on the Economics of Commodity Markets at Stanford University on October 27, 2012. Research Associates Kenneth Singleton of Stanford University and Wei Xiong of Princeton University organized the program. These papers were discussed:

* James Hamilton, University of California at San Diego and NBER, and Jing Cynthia Wu, University of Chicago, "Effects of Index-Fund Investing on Commodity Futures Prices"

* Brian Henderson, George Washington University, and Neil Pearson and Li Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "New Evidence on the Financialization of Commodity Markets"

* Michael Sockin, Princeton University, and Wei Xiong, "Feedback Effects of Commodity Futures Prices"

* Suleyman Basak and Anna Pavlova, London Business School, "A Model of Financialization of Commodities"

* Domenico Ferraro, Duke University; Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University and NBER; and Barbara Rossi, Duke University, "Can Oil Prices Forecast Exchange Rates?" (NBER Working Paper No. 17998)

* Amiyatosh Purnanandam and Daniel Weagley, University of Michigan, "Can Markets Discipline Government Agencies? Evidence from the Weather Derivatives Market"

* Martin Bodenstein and Luca Guerrieri, Federal Reserve Board, and Lutz...