TY - CPAPER AB - The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its causes has brought renewed interest in futures markets. In this paper, the hedging effectiveness of European and US wheat futures markets were studied to test whether they were affected by the high price instability after 2007. In particular, the focus of the paper is to test of whether the increasing presence of financialization of commodity trading in futures markets mentioned in the literature have made them divorced from the physical markets. A multivariate GARCH model was applied to compute optimal hedging ratios. Important evidence was found of an improvement, after 2007, in the effectiveness of hedging with the European futures. AU - Revoredo-Giha, Cesar AU - Zuppiroli, Marco DA - 2015 DA - 2015 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.212486 DO - doi ID - 212486 KW - Demand and Price Analysis KW - Marketing KW - Futures prices KW - commodity prices KW - volatility KW - wheat KW - Europe. L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212486/files/Revoredo-Giha-Hedging%20effectiveness%20of%20European%20wheat%20futures%20markets-363.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212486/files/Revoredo-Giha-Hedging%20effectiveness%20of%20European%20wheat%20futures%20markets-363.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212486/files/Revoredo-Giha-Hedging%20effectiveness%20of%20European%20wheat%20futures%20markets-363.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212486/files/Revoredo-Giha-Hedging%20effectiveness%20of%20European%20wheat%20futures%20markets-363.pdf N2 - The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its causes has brought renewed interest in futures markets. In this paper, the hedging effectiveness of European and US wheat futures markets were studied to test whether they were affected by the high price instability after 2007. In particular, the focus of the paper is to test of whether the increasing presence of financialization of commodity trading in futures markets mentioned in the literature have made them divorced from the physical markets. A multivariate GARCH model was applied to compute optimal hedging ratios. Important evidence was found of an improvement, after 2007, in the effectiveness of hedging with the European futures. PY - 2015 PY - 2015 T1 - Hedging effectiveness of European wheat futures markets: An application of multivariate GARCH models TI - Hedging effectiveness of European wheat futures markets: An application of multivariate GARCH models UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212486/files/Revoredo-Giha-Hedging%20effectiveness%20of%20European%20wheat%20futures%20markets-363.pdf Y1 - 2015 ER -