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Leticia Pérez-Sienes1, Mar Grande1,2, Juan Carlos Losada1
1Grupo de Sistemas Complejos, ETS Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
Anticipating and understanding fluctuations in the agri-food market is very important in order to implement policies that can assure fair prices and food availability. In this paper, we contribute to the understanding of this market by exploring its efficiency and whether the local Hurst exponent can help to anticipate its trend or not. We have analyzed the time series of the price for different agri-commodities and classified each day into persistent, anti-persistent, or white-noise. Next, we have studied the probability and speed to mean reversion for several rolling windows. We found that in general mean reversion is more probable and occurs faster during anti-persistent periods. In contrast, for most of the rolling windows we could not find a significant effect of persistence in mean reversion. Hence, we conclude that the Hurst exponent can help to anticipate the future trend and range of the expected prices in this market.
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