TY - CPAPER AB - The paper examines a causal link between trading activity and market factors as returns and volatility as well. The ratio of volume to open interest in futures contracts performs better than other parameters extensively adopted in literature. The reason probably depends on the daily frequency of information which gives statistical evidence to phenomena which conclude their effect in weekly intervals. The estimations for the contemporaneous model give statistical evidence of a mutual relationship between trading activity and realized volatility. The behaviour of all the twelve futures markets examined is quite similar and uniform respect to the scale of the coefficients and their temporal profile. AU - Zuppiroli, Marco AU - Donati, Michele AU - Riani, Marco AU - Verga, Giovanni DA - 2015-06 DA - 2015-06 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.207848 DO - doi ID - 207848 KW - Agricultural and Food Policy KW - volatility KW - trading activity KW - commodity futures markets KW - agricultural commodities L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207848/files/The%20Impact%20of%20Trading%20Activity%20in%20Agricultural%20Futures%20Markets.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207848/files/The%20Impact%20of%20Trading%20Activity%20in%20Agricultural%20Futures%20Markets.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207848/files/The%20Impact%20of%20Trading%20Activity%20in%20Agricultural%20Futures%20Markets.pdf LA - eng LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207848/files/The%20Impact%20of%20Trading%20Activity%20in%20Agricultural%20Futures%20Markets.pdf N2 - The paper examines a causal link between trading activity and market factors as returns and volatility as well. The ratio of volume to open interest in futures contracts performs better than other parameters extensively adopted in literature. The reason probably depends on the daily frequency of information which gives statistical evidence to phenomena which conclude their effect in weekly intervals. The estimations for the contemporaneous model give statistical evidence of a mutual relationship between trading activity and realized volatility. The behaviour of all the twelve futures markets examined is quite similar and uniform respect to the scale of the coefficients and their temporal profile. PY - 2015-06 PY - 2015-06 T1 - The Impact of Trading Activity in Agricultural Futures Markets TI - The Impact of Trading Activity in Agricultural Futures Markets UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207848/files/The%20Impact%20of%20Trading%20Activity%20in%20Agricultural%20Futures%20Markets.pdf Y1 - 2015-06 ER -