Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145345 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 16-038/III
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper features an analysis of the cointegration relationships among agricultural commodity, ethanol and Cushing crude oil spot and futures prices. The use of grains for the creation of bio-fuels has sparked fears that these demands are inflating food prices. We analyse approximately 10 years of daily spot and futures prices for corn, wheat, sugar ethanol and oil prices from Datastream for the period 19 July 2006 to 2 July 2015. The analysis, featuring Engle-Granger pairwise cointegration and Markov-switching VECM and Impulse Response Analysis, confirms that these markets have significant linkages which vary according to whether they are in low or high volatility regimes.
Subjects: 
Bio-fuels
time series
cointegration
Markov-switching
VECM
Impulse Responses
Volatility
JEL: 
C22
Q02
Q35
Q42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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