Workshops

Financial and Physical Oil Market Linkages II Workshop (September 27, 2012)

• Workshop Agenda and Participants 


• Workshop Summary Notes


• Physical Market Conditions, Paper Market Activity, and the Brent-WTI Spread
  Bahattin Buyuksahin, Thomas K. Lee, James T. Moser and Michel A. Robe
• Presentation (Michel Robe)
• Discussant Presentation (Lutz Kilian)
• Speculation in the Oil Market
  Luciana Juvenal and Ivan Petrella
• Presentation  (Luciana Juvenal)
• Discussant Presentation (James Hamilton)
• Financial Investment in Commodities Markets: Potential Impact on Commodity Prices and Volatilities
  Institute of International Finance (IIF) Commodities Task Force
• Presentation (Hung Tran)
• Discussant Presentation (James Smith)

Financial and Physical Oil Market Linkages Workshop (August 24, 2011)

• Workshop Agenda and Participants


• Discussion Summary


• Does "paper oil" matter (summary version)
  Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel Robe
• Full Version of Paper (available on SSRN website)
• Presentation (Michel Robe)
• Discussant Presentation (James Smith)
• Investor flows and the 2008 boom/bust in oil prices
  Kenneth Singleton
• Presentation (Kenneth Singleton)
• Discussant Presentation (Bahattin Buyuksahin)
• Do financial investors destabilize the oil price?
  Marco Lombardi and Ine Van Robays
• Presentation (Marco Lombardi)
• Discussant Presentation (James Hamilton)