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The authors use the term structure of futures prices to test whether investors anticipate mean reversion in spot asset prices. The empirical results indicate mean reversion in each market they examine. For agricultural commodities and crude oil, the magnitude of the estimated mean reversion is large; for example, point estimates indicate that 44 percent of a typical spot oil price shock is expected to be reversed over the subsequent eight months. For metals, the degree of mean reversion is substantially less but still statistically significant. The authors detect only weak evidence of mean reversion in financial asset prices. Coauthors are Jay F. Coughenour, Paul J. Seguin, and Margaret Monroe Smoller. Copyright 1995 by American Finance Association.