The usefulness of commodity futures markets for hedging is affected by delivery conditions, contract size and related contract details. Impediments to delivery or contract specifications designed primarily for large hedgers can reduce competition in such markets, thus lowering risk-shifting performance under certain conditions. Reduced risk-shifting performance was evident in grain futures markets in 1973
Recent changes in the feeder cattle futures contract specifications are expected to reduce hedging r...
Cash Price -- Subject to Substantial Fluctuations. Price Uncertainty Makes Business Decisions Diffic...
In this paper, we investigate the relation between hedging activity by commercial/merchant/producers...
In commodity marketing, to 'hedge' is to minimize financial loss from an adverse change in commodity...
Futures markets are essentially hedging markets. A successful futures market, therefore, mist provid...
Futures markets provide an important outlet for commercial traders to hedge their price risk; in tur...
The economic function of a futures market is performed efficiently only when a high level of competi...
In 2003, trading of commodity futures shifted from single commodity, regional exchanges to national ...
The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its cau...
The economic function of commodity futures markets is generally acknowledged to be that of affording...
This article investigates the effect of contract provisrons in attracting hedgers to a futures marke...
Agribusiness companies and farmers must cope with the risk of price changes when buying or selling a...
The potential for shifting risk through hedging in commodity futures is analyzed for selected grain...
Abstract. The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one ...
Multiple delivery specifications exist on nearly all commodity futures contracts. Sellers typically ...
Recent changes in the feeder cattle futures contract specifications are expected to reduce hedging r...
Cash Price -- Subject to Substantial Fluctuations. Price Uncertainty Makes Business Decisions Diffic...
In this paper, we investigate the relation between hedging activity by commercial/merchant/producers...
In commodity marketing, to 'hedge' is to minimize financial loss from an adverse change in commodity...
Futures markets are essentially hedging markets. A successful futures market, therefore, mist provid...
Futures markets provide an important outlet for commercial traders to hedge their price risk; in tur...
The economic function of a futures market is performed efficiently only when a high level of competi...
In 2003, trading of commodity futures shifted from single commodity, regional exchanges to national ...
The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its cau...
The economic function of commodity futures markets is generally acknowledged to be that of affording...
This article investigates the effect of contract provisrons in attracting hedgers to a futures marke...
Agribusiness companies and farmers must cope with the risk of price changes when buying or selling a...
The potential for shifting risk through hedging in commodity futures is analyzed for selected grain...
Abstract. The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one ...
Multiple delivery specifications exist on nearly all commodity futures contracts. Sellers typically ...
Recent changes in the feeder cattle futures contract specifications are expected to reduce hedging r...
Cash Price -- Subject to Substantial Fluctuations. Price Uncertainty Makes Business Decisions Diffic...
In this paper, we investigate the relation between hedging activity by commercial/merchant/producers...
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