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Showing 1 to 20 of 624 for “"Commodities"”.
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Instrumentos financieros para invertir en commodities
… en el mercado financiero para invertir en Commodities, con el fin de responder a la pregunta acerca de que si la utilización de alguno de esos instrumentos es más ventajosa, por sobre los otros. A lo largo de los últimos años ha aumentado la demanda de aquellos activos vinculados a las …
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Essays on assets and contingent commodities.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1969. Ph.D.
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Black Male Student-Athletes as NCAA Commodities
… The NCAA treats black student-athletes as commodities. The athletic abilities of these young men excite fans and provide universities with means to gain ticket sale, endorsements, and donations. The media distracts from and helps this commodification by saturating the public with images …
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United States grades for perishable agricultural commodities
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of General Business, Curriculum in Food Distribution, 1956
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Risk Aversion and Consumer Choice With Many Commodities
… analysis to choice problems with more than two commodities and with multiple sources of risk.
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Meanings and Markets: Reading Food Commodities in Postwar America
… investigates the literary construction of food commodities in the United States after World War II. Because of the war effort's ramping up of industry and technology, the exchange of new and rationalized food commodities traded in the marketplace becomes the dominant mode of food consumption. As …
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Short term price behavior on the commodities futures market,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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Consumption and Commodities: The Political Economy of Canada’s Growth Model
This dissertation investigates Canada’s contemporary growth model in the context of the broader growth crisis affecting advanced capitalist democracies. Drawing on the Growth Model Perspective (GMP), it identifies Canada’s hybrid growth model (GM) and develops an explanatory narrative emphasizing …
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Multiple commodities optimization of lean technology infusion for automobile manufacturer
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002.
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La influencia de los inversores financieros en los mercados de commodities
… financieros ha aumentado en los mercados de los commodities. El impacto de su entrada sobre el precio de los commodities causa una discusión controversial en la opinión pública. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el funcionamiento y evolución del mercado de commodities para contestar la …
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Intertemporal Price Relationships of Storable and Nonstorable Commodities: Theory and Application
Major disagreements remain unresolved with the theories of Keynes and Working regarding intertemporal price relationships, hence better explanation is needed. Keynes' theory of normal backwardation suggests that a risk premium, which a hedger pays to transfer risk, exists in futures markets. …
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Time-varying hedge ratio estimation for selected agricultural commodities and products
The use of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) models to estimate time-varying hedge ratios suggests that conventional procedures may not provide the optimal hedge ratios. However, the initial results using ARCH models raise several questions regarding time-varying hedge ratios. …
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Fate of Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes in different frozen produce commodities
… for extended periods of time on different commodities. Frozen cantaloupe should not be thawed for more than 2 hours at any temperature to avoid the growth of Salmonella. Results of this study emphasize the importance of Good Agricultural and Good Manufacturing practices to avoid …
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Fashion's Influence on Garment Mass Production: Knowledge, Commodities and the Capture of Value
… industries. Yet through fashion, garments as commodities are complexly embedded in social and cultural processes and in the specificities of place. Although the structures of the global garment production industries have been the subject of numerous studies from a variety of theoretical …
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Price Discovery and Volatility Spillover Effects: The Agricultural ETPS and Their Underlying Commodities
… most popular grain ETPs and their underlying commodities using VEC model and BEKK model. Price discovery is confirmed by bidirectional relationships between ETPs and underlying commodity in the long term, and the WEAT_ETP and CBOT Wheat Futures December Contracts. In addition, findings show …
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'Flea-ting' Markets: Commodities, Consumption and Value in a Flea Market in Singapore
Modern consumption practices in `developed? economies and societies focus on mainly on `formal?, conventional retail spaces such as shopping malls. Indeed, shopping malls are primary and significant sites of consumption in the `modern? nation-state of Singapore, and play an important role both in …
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