A Study on the Causal Relationship between Spot Price and Futures Price of Crude Oil and Agricultural Products

This paper studies the relationship between the agricultural, energy, and derivatives markets. This study empirically analyzes how the results of previous studies on the Granger causality between oil price and the spot price of agricultural products appear in the futures market by using the Toda and Yamamoto (1995)’ causality test. There are two main findings. First, 7 bidirectional causalities and 27 causalities between oil and 6 agricultural products are found, providing strong evidence of a causal relationship. Second, causality is found between oil prices and grain and oilseed type agricultural products, and the spot price of oil has relatively more causalities on agricultural product prices than the futures price of oil. Lastly, testing each period shows that a financial crisis can strengthen the relationship between the agriculture markets and the energy market

Genome-wide functional analysis using the barcode sequence alignment and statistical analysis (Barcas) tool

Pipelines of pooled library screen analysis. Table S1. Public library sets of shRNA, sgRNA and deletion mutant strains. Figure S2. A list of wrong barcodes from 1,230 shRNAs of TRC library. Table S2. Sequences of 25 barcodes with abnormally increased mapping counts by imperfect matching. Table S3. A list of the used options for each tool. Table S4. Comparison of mapping results and speed by three tools. (PDF 7691 kb