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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Market efficiency and the microstructure of grain futures markets implied by return series of various time intervals

Abstract

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This dissertation investigates the price adjustment process and efficiency of grain futures markets (corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, soybean meal, and soybean oil) using data from the 1986 contracts traded on the Chicago Board of Trade. By Black's (1986) criteria, a market is efficient if the price is between half and twice of the underlying equilibrium value. This standard is applied to Amihud-Mendelson's (1987) model of price adjustment with noise using regression and Box-Jenkins' (1970) ARMA (1,1) techniques. Noise trading (scalping) provides liquidity to the market, and has a major impact on the process of price adjustment. The measure of trading noise employed in this study is modified from Thompson's (1984) technique.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2011

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Liu, Shi-Miin

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • Copyright 1990 Liu, Shi-Miin
Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
AAI9026256
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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21962

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Liu, Shi-Miin. Market efficiency and the microstructure of grain futures markets implied by return series of various time intervals. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/21962