Futures Trading, Rational Expectations, and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
β Scribed by Margaret Bray
- Book ID
- 120878674
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 399 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-9682
- DOI
- 10.2307/1911513
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onsider an individual holding a commodity that is subject to price risk be-C cause of factors affecting the future demand for this commodity. For example, the commodity might be a raw material whose price fluctuates randomly because of cyclical disturbances. If a futures market exists for the commod
## Abstract This article uses a nonparametric test based on the arcβsine law (see, e.g., Feller, 1965), which involves comparing the theoretical distribution implied by an intraday random walk with the empirical frequency distribution of the daily high/low times, in order to address the question of
I analyzed how the existence of futures markets affects the amount of a good stored for sale in a subsequent period, when (1) individuals holding the good face price risk because of demand fluctuations, and (2) they make their decisions using the correct (i.e., equilibrium) price distribution. Rando