Excess volatility or volatile fundamentals? : the impact of financial speculation on commodity markets and implications for cocoa farmers in Ghana

The rising prices and high volatility in commodity markets, observed since 2002, have triggered a debate about whether these dynamics are in excess of what could be explained by market fundamentals alone. It has been argued by many that the price dynamics generated are linked to the behaviour of fin...

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Main Author: van Huellen, Sophie
Published: SOAS, University of London 2015
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.703421