The Efficiency of Chinese Futures Markets

Chinese futures markets are criticized in recent years because of its inefficient performance in forecasting cash price in the future. In first place, commodity futures markets do not have cointegration relationship with cash markets; in second place, commodity futures price cannot act as an unbiase...

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Main Author: zhang, zherong
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27450/
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description Chinese futures markets are criticized in recent years because of its inefficient performance in forecasting cash price in the future. In first place, commodity futures markets do not have cointegration relationship with cash markets; in second place, commodity futures price cannot act as an unbiased predictor for cash price. In this paper, a discussing of the theoretical relationship between spot and futures prices for Chinese commodities and an analysis of the existed facts are given. Meanwhile, this paper also attempt to provide a detail interpretation of the trading behavior in Chinese futures markets, how to deal with the weak or semi-strong efficient markets and the prospect of Chinese futures markets. Keywords: Cointegration, futures markets, unbiased prediction
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spelling nottingham-274502017-10-19T13:56:03Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27450/ The Efficiency of Chinese Futures Markets zhang, zherong Chinese futures markets are criticized in recent years because of its inefficient performance in forecasting cash price in the future. In first place, commodity futures markets do not have cointegration relationship with cash markets; in second place, commodity futures price cannot act as an unbiased predictor for cash price. In this paper, a discussing of the theoretical relationship between spot and futures prices for Chinese commodities and an analysis of the existed facts are given. Meanwhile, this paper also attempt to provide a detail interpretation of the trading behavior in Chinese futures markets, how to deal with the weak or semi-strong efficient markets and the prospect of Chinese futures markets. Keywords: Cointegration, futures markets, unbiased prediction 2014-09-16 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27450/1/Dissertation.pdf zhang, zherong (2014) The Efficiency of Chinese Futures Markets. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
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title_full The Efficiency of Chinese Futures Markets
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title_short The Efficiency of Chinese Futures Markets
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url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27450/