Hur påverkar handeln med derivatinstrument priset på den underliggande varan?
The purpose of this paper is to examine the food commodity price spike of 2008 and to what extent financial speculation was a contributing factor. I will try to determine this in two ways, first by a review of the fundamentals factors that is behind supply and demand in the agricultural commodities markets. Second by an empirical study of the correlation and Granger causation of volume of futures
