On the behavior of commodity prices when speculative storage is bounded

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• 作者：Atle Oglend^a ; ^{atle.oglend@uis.no} ; Tore Selland Kleppe^b ; ^{tore.kleppe@uis.no}
• 关键词：Q02 ; Q11 ; Keywords ; Commodity prices ; Storage ; Capacity ; Rational expectations
• 刊名：Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：75
• 期：Complete
• 页码：52-69
• 全文大小：664 K
• 卷排序：75

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This paper investigates the implications of bounded speculative storage, storage bounded from below at zero and above at a capacity, on commodity prices. Binding capacity mirrors the non-negativity constraint on storage and leads to negative price spiking and higher volatility when the market is in deep contango, i.e. low current prices at high stock levels. With bounded storage there is no need to restrict storage to be costly to ensure a rational expectations equilibrium. This allows the model to cover a wide range of storage technologies, including free and productive storage. We also provide an alternative expression for speculative prices that highlights the key role of the storage boundaries. The competitive equilibrium price is the sum of discounted future probability weighted boundary prices. The boundary prices can be viewed as dividends on commodities in storage reflecting the realization of economic profits from storage.