Literature Review on Commodities Market: A Theoretical Concept

Abstract

The commodity Derivative markets in India witnessed a phenomenal growth since liberalization of commodity markets in the year 2000. This process was followed by setting up of the commodity exchanges leading the Indian commodity markets to be at par with the International Commodity markets. At present, the Indian commodity markets have an exhaustive list of commodities available for trading. The present study reviews the available literature and work done by various researchers on the commodity markets in India. The various themes on which the review has been done are origin and development, role of Exchanges, Regulatory mechanism, Performance of commodity market and Commodity Risk Management. The study aims at providing related information to the stakeholders of commodities market like investors, policy makers, and academicians.