Efficiency in Agricultural Spice Commodities Futures Markets in India

This paper is to analyze the efficiency of agricultural spices commodity markets by assessing the relationships between futures prices and spot market prices of major agricultural spices commodities in India during the sample period of January 2010 through December 2014. The econometric tools like Unit root tests, Johansen co-integration test, and Pairwise Granger Causality tests were employed in the study. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller tests and Phillips-Perron tests employed in the study proved that both the selected metals markets were stationary series, Johansen co-integration test proved selected metals spot and future markets are co-integrating each other and the Granger Causality test proved uni-causality relationships among these markets between spot and future market return series during the study period.