Commodity Prices, Convenience Yields, and Inflation
โ Scribed by Gospodinov, Nikolay; Ng, Serena
- Book ID
- 126652756
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 221 KB
- Volume
- 95
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0034-6535
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## Abstract The pricing of commodity futures contracts is important both for professionals and academics. It is often argued that futures prices include a convenience yield, and this article uses a simple trading strategy to approximate the impact of convenience yields. The approximation requires o
T modity convenience yields. Convenience yield refers to the inverse carrying charges or return implied when spot prices plus storage costs and interest charges exceed the futures prices, holding risk considerations aside. An analytic expression for the convenience yield is derived in a market setti