Kamal smimou

How Global Commodity Futures Move Emerging Market Economies

Commodities: Markets, Performance, and Strategies
Editors: H. Kent Baker, Gregory Filbeck, Jeffrey H. Harris
ISBN: 9780190656010


Kamal Smimou asks a practical question: if you trade emerging markets, do U.S.-listed commodity futures tell you anything useful? His answer, backed by panel regressions across 22 countries, is yes. But the link depends on which commodity and which region.