; ; ; "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . a , ; "Financialization in Commodity Markets"; ; "batchuser@example.com"; "Christiano, Lawrence J.", "Chari, V. V."; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis"; "Open interest", "Net financial flows", "Futures market returns", "Spot price volatility"; "G23 - Pension Funds; Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors", "E02 - Institutions and the Macroeconomy", "G12 - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates"; "The financialization view is that increased trading in commodity futures markets is associated with increases in the growth rate and volatility of commodity spot prices. This view gained credence be-cause in the 2000s trading volume increased sharply and many commodity prices rose and became more volatile. Using a large panel dataset we constructed, which includes commodities with and with-out futures markets, we find no empirical link between increased futures market trading and changes in price behavior. Our data sheds light on the economic role of futures markets. The conventional view is that futures markets provide one-way insurance by allowing outsiders, traders with no direct interest in a commodity, to insure insiders, traders with a direct interest. The data are not consistent with the conventional view and we argue that they point to an alternative mutual insurance view, in which all participants insure each other. We formalize this view in a model and show that it is consistent with key features of the data."^^; "2017-08-15"; "2019-05-17T13:40:11.349587112+00:00"^^; "https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.552"; ; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Thu Nov 7 20:54:37 2019"; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Research Paper"; "129", "141"; "Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)"; "552"; "Net financial flows", "Futures market returns", "Open interest", "Spot price volatility"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department"; ; "Publication" . ; .