Are There Common Factors in Individual Commodity Futures Returns?
Posted: 10 Dec 2013
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Are There Common Factors in Individual Commodity Futures Returns?
Date Written: November 22, 2013
Abstract
We explore whether there are common factors in the cross-section of individual commodity futures returns. We test various asset pricing models which have been employed for the equities market as well as models motivated by commodity pricing theories. The use of these families of models allows us also to test whether the commodities and equities market are integrated. In addition, we employ Principal Components factor models which do not require à priori specification of factors. We find that none of the models is successful. Our results imply that commodity markets are segmented from the equities market and they are considerably heterogeneous per se.
Keywords: Common factors, Commodity-specific factors, Hedging pressure, Inventories, Market segmentation, Principal components analysis
JEL Classification: G12, G13, G21
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