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Central European Management Journal

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Year 2013 
Volume 21 
Issue 2

Financial Crisis and the Financialization of Commodity Markets

Waldemar Aspadarec
Uniwersytet Szczeciński

2013 21 (2) Central European Management Journal

DOI 10.7206/mba.ce.2084-3356.56

Abstract

Purpose: Analysis of reasons, correlations and consequences following from the impact that financial investors have on commodity markets – both before and after the crisis.

Methodology: The research on the tremendous impact that the financial sector exerts on price formation in commodity markets, defined as the financialization of commodity markets, was based on a narrative approach. This approach makes use of available historical documents and attempts to reconstruct factors causing structural changes in commodity markets. As a result of these factors, commodity and financial markets (and particularly
capital market) have become similar to a great extent.

Findings: Drawing upon the research, it can be stated that the global financial crisis has contributed not only to a major change in the involvement of investors in commodity markets, but also to a structural change of this involvement, which is accompanied by a number of negative consequences.

Originality: The research enables to draw certain conclusions, e.g. that the financialization of commodity markets is reflected in a radical price fluctuation in these markets due to which the prices are isolated from fair value. Structural changes are also discussed. They entail the attempt to counteract such negative consequences, e.g. regulations imposed to provide a greater transparency of the activity undertaken by investors in commodity markets.

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Aspadarec, Waldemar (2013). Aspadarec, W. . (2013). Financial Crisis and the Financialization of Commodity Markets. Central European Management Journal, 21(2), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.7206/mba.ce.2084-3356.56 (Original work published 2013)

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Aspadarec, Waldemar. Aspadarec, W. . “Financial Crisis And The Financialization Of Commodity Markets”. 2013. Central European Management Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 2013, pp. 23-37.

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Aspadarec, Waldemar. Aspadarec, Waldemar . “Financial Crisis And The Financialization Of Commodity Markets”. Central European Management Journal, Central European Management Journal, 21, no. 2 (2013): 23-37. doi:10.7206/mba.ce.2084-3356.56.