Economics of Commodity Markets.

An NBER conference on the "Economics of Commodity Markets" organized by NBER Research Associates Kenneth Singleton of Stanford University and Wei Xiong of Princeton University was held in Cambridge on October 25 and 26, 2013. The following papers were discussed:

* Suman Banerjee, Nanyang Business School, and Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University and NBER, "Destabilizing Commodity Market Speculation"

* John Birge and Ignacia Mercadal, University of Chicago; Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago and NBER; and Michael Pavlin, Wilfrid Laurier University, "The Role of Financial Players in Electricity Markets: An Empirical Analysis of MISO"

* Eugenio Bobenrieth, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Juan Bobenrieth, Universidad del Bio-Bio; and Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley, "Bubble Troubles? Rational Storage, Mean Reversion and Runs in Commodity Prices"

* Alexander David, University of Calgary, "Exploration Activity, Long Run Decisions, and Roll Returns in Energy Futures"

* Wenjin Kang and Ke Tang, Renmin University of China; and Geert Rouwenhorst, Yale University, "The Role of Hedgers and Speculators in Liquidity Provision to Commodity Futures Markets"

* Yu-chin Chen, University of Washington, and Dongwon Lee, University of California, Riverside, "What Makes a Commodity...