NBER Economics of Commodity Markets

October 27, 2012

SIEPR at Stanford

Conference Code of Conduct

Saturday, October 27
1
James D. Hamilton, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Jing Cynthia Wu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER

Effects of Index-Fund Investing on Commodity Futures Prices
2
Michael Sockin, University of Texas at Austin
Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER

Feedback Effects of Commodity Futures Prices
3
Suleyman Basak, London Business School
Anna Pavlova, London Business School

A Model of Financialization of Commodities
4
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, University of Michigan
Daniel Weagley, University of Tennessee

Can Markets Discipline Government Agencies? Evidence from the Weather Derivatives Market
5
Martin Bodenstein, Fedral Reserve Board
Luca Guerrieri, Federal Reserve Board
Lutz Kilian, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Monetary Policy Responses to Oil Price Fluctuations
6
Boyan Jovanovic, New York University and NBER

Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources
7
Eyal Dvir, Charles River Associates
Kenneth S. Rogoff, Harvard University and NBER

Demand Effects and Speculation in Oil Markets: Theory and Evidence
8
Peter Christoffersen, University of Toronto
Kris Jacobs, University of Houston
Bingxin Li, West Virginia University

Dynamic Jump Intensities and Risk Premiums in Crude Oil Futures and Options Markets
9
Steven D. Baker, University of Virginia
Bryan Routledge, Carnegie Mellon University

The Price of Oil Risk