Spears School’s Betty Simkins is a founding editor of new Journal of Commodity Markets
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Betty Simkins, professor and Williams Companies Chair in Business in the Department of Finance in the Spears School of Business, is a founding editor of the newly launched Journal of Commodity Markets.
The journal, published by Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, aims to publish high-quality research in all areas of economics and finance related to commodity markets. The purpose of this interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary journal is to stimulate international dialog among academics, industry participants, traders, investors, and policymakers with mutual interests in commodity markets.
“My co-editors and I are very excited about this journal and think it will make a big impact on research about commodity markets,” said Simkins.
For the past five months, Simkins and co-editors Marcel Prokopczuk, Leibniz Universität Hannover in Hannover, Germany, and Sjur Westgaard, Norwegian University of Science & Technology NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, collaborated with academic experts from around the world to create the editorial board.
Prokopczuk said of the launch, “On behalf of my colleague co-editors, professors Betty Simkins and Sjur Westgaard, I’d like to state how happy we are with our roles as founding editors of the Journal of Commodity Markets. We believe that there is a strong demand for a journal that covers all aspects of commodity markets. Supported by our editorial board, we are certain that we will establish the journal as a leading one in the field.”
Topics of the journal can be related to:
- Econometric/statistical analysis of commodity markets,
- Real option analysis for commodity project investment and production,
- Portfolio allocation including commodities; pricing, hedging, and risk analysis of commodity derivatives,
- Risk premia in commodity markets,
- Forecasting in commodity markets,
- Financialization of commodity markets,
- Corporate finance for commodity-exposed corporations,
- Organization of commodity markets,
- Regulation of commodity markets,
- Local and global commodity trading, and
- Commodity supply chains.
Commodity markets are important for economic development and growth and are at the center of many geopolitical issues. Despite these facts, compared to equity, currency, and fixed-income markets, commodity markets have been relatively under-researched.
Donna de Weerd-Wilson, executive publisher of Economics and Finance journals at Elsevier said, “With the strong support from many international commodities experts, 39 of whom now make up our editorial board, we are confident that this new addition to our Economics and Finance journal portfolio will be a success. With its launch we hope to provide a new outlet for the overall commodity sector.”
For more information or to submit an article, go to Journal of Commodity Markets website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-commodity-markets.