@article{Woodard:236159,
      recid = {236159},
      author = {Woodard, Joshua and Dutta, Tridib and Xue, Lin},
      title = {Impacts of Futures Markets Speculation and Rail  Transportation Networks on Commodity Basis Behavior},
      address = {2016},
      number = {333-2016-14334},
      series = {8579},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {Interactions between rail and transportation networks on  commodity price behavior and grain flows remains an  important issue in the agricultural sector, from both an  industry and policy perspective. This study explores the  determinants of commodity price basis and basis convergence  with a particular focus on the influence of futures market  speculation in conjunction with rail rates and  transportation networks, and finds that speculative  positions have a significant widening impact on the basis.  An overview of the data automation and data sourcing  routines used in the study, employing the Ag-Analytics.org  platform, is also presented.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/236159},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.236159},
}