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Global Commodities

Physical, Financial, and Sustainability Aspects

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Authors:
  1. Murad Harasheh

    1. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  • Aggregates global commodity topics in one fluid book
  • Integrates financial valuation issues that are almost only covered in corporate finance books by including real cases using recent data
  • Includes a discussion of sustainability, including unpacking negative ESG in commodities
  • Adopts and analyses recent commodity data cover the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Overview of the Global Physical Commodities

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    Pages 1-24

  3. The Global Supply Chain of Commodities

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    Pages 25-46

  4. Risk Management in Global Commodities

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    Pages 47-75

  5. Financial Aspects of Commodities

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    Pages 77-107

  6. Financial Valuation Aspects

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    Pages 109-128

  7. Commodities and the Sustainability Transition

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    Pages 129-154

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 155-159
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About this book

For many academics, students, and professionals, the field of commodities is a black box. This book explores commodities in a holistic manner, presenting concepts from a multidisciplinary business and financial perspective, and offering a panoramic view of the global commodity business and markets. In this book, the author presents core issues related to global commodities with recent data including COVID-19. The book introduces the key physical commodities traded globally and some related issues such as the global supply chain, global trading, transportation, storage, and how to finance global commodity trades. Then, it discusses how global commodity businesses and traders manage global risks related to commodity production (generation or extraction), transportation, storage, the final delivery, and currency exchange. Additionally, the book discusses financial commodities, the origins of global commodity derivatives and exchanges, the rationale behind the birth of commodity futures and trading, hedging, speculation, financialization, and manipulation of commodity markets, and how financial trading is executed in real life. In the last section, the author also discusses sustainability issues related to global commodities and the financial valuation aspects of the global commodity businesses supported by examples from real cases with recent data.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Murad Harasheh

About the author


Murad Harasheh received his PhD in Economics, Law, and Institutions in 2014 from IUSS University School for Advanced Studies Pavia, Italy, and his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees (with distinction) in Business and Finance from Birzeit University, Palestine. He worked from 2008 to 2011 as a full-time Lecturer and Researcher of Finance at Birzeit University, from 2007 to 2011 as a financial consultant and investment analyst, from 2015 to 2017 as an economist and energy market analyst at the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks, and Environment (ARERA) in collaboration with the University of Pavia, and from 2017 to 2020 as a research fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Bologna, Italy. His primary research interests are related to firm valuation, energy and commodity finance, and sustainability economics. He is an author of various publications in international journals in finance, business valuation, and energy. He teaches Corporate Finance, Financial Valuation, Global Commodity Markets, Energy Markets, and Risk Management.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Commodities

  • Book Subtitle: Physical, Financial, and Sustainability Aspects

  • Authors: Murad Harasheh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64026-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64025-5Published: 05 February 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64028-6Published: 05 February 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64026-2Published: 04 February 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 159

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Finance, Capital Markets, Financial Services, Risk Management

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