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Showing 1 to 20 of 1263 for “"Commodity"”.
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Commodity swaps
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1990.
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Ambiguity Aversion in Commodity Markets
… explores the impact of model uncertainty on commodity market models. The commodity markets include various idiosyncratic uncertainties that are not present in other markets, and this thesis is the first to provide a thorough and detailed analysis of their effects. We assume that agents …
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Intrinsic PUFs for commodity devices
There has been a consistent trend of growth in recent years in the number and interconnectedness of embedded devices in all areas of life. Embedded systems are cheaper, more accessible, and more versatile than ever. The ubiquity of these systems and their intersection with critical areas means that …
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Essays on commodity price variability
… papers that investigate different dimensions of commodity price variability which has increased dramatically in recent years. The first paper analyzes recent volatility spillovers in the United States from crude oil to corn and ethanol markets using futures prices. Spillovers to both corn and …
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Three essays on commodity markets
… essays that investigate issues in agricultural commodity futures and cash markets. The first essay uses price discovery measures and intraday data to quantify the proportional contribution of nearby and deferred contracts in price discovery in the corn and live cattle futures markets. On …
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Commodity bonds : a financing alternative
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1986.
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A commodity trusted computing module
… Module (TEM) is a high-level specification for a commodity chip that can execute user-supplied procedures in a trusted environment. The TEM draws inspiration from the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), the first security-related hardware that has gained massive adoption in the PC market. However, the …
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Roadmap for commodity sourcing strategy
The procurement and sourcing group of OG company was tasked to systematically forecast, design and develop the future state of the company's next generation supply base. The main objective is to anticipate the preferred locations to source commodities such as machine parts from in the near future. …
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Technology strategy in commodity industries
Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF COMMODITY PRICE DYNAMICS
Fluctuation in commodity prices is a significant and timely issue to be studied. My first chapter examines the impact of monetary policy and other macroeconomic shocks on the dynamics of agricultural commodity prices. The major contributions of this study are twofold. First, unlike other studies …
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Protection in commodity monolithic operating systems
… to retrofit real privilege separation within commodity operating systems by ""nesting"" a small memory management protection domain inside a monolithic kernel's single-address space: all the while allowing both domains to operate at the same hardware privilege level. This dissertation also …
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Three Essays on Commodity Risk Management
… risk management with empirical applications for commodity markets. The first two papers analyze selective hedging, where risk managers have views on future market conditions and sometimes hedge selectively based on these views. I develop two Bayesian optimal hedging models based on the Bayesian …
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Three essays in commodity futures markets
… contemporary issues in diverse themes including commodity storage theory, livestock marketing and price discovery, and intraday announcement effects in electronic futures markets are presented. In the first essay we investigate storage in the presence of backwardation and the existence of the …
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Three essays on commodity markets’ quality
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Option hedging error in commodity markets
Hedging options are a common practice to reduce or specify the risk of an option position. In most institutions, it takes place daily. The hedge coefficients used are often determined by the Black Scholes option pricing model and are commonly referred to as the “greeks”. Although the flaws of the …
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Botswana's commodity concentration and export earnings
Commodity concentration has been regarded as a major factor contributing to short-term instability in export earnings experienced by developing countries. This paper investigates the degree of export instability in Botswana's exports. It also considers whether commodity concentration is a source of …
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Commodity price shocks and international finance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1989.
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Argos: Verifiable FHE Using Commodity Hardware
… hardware extensions and is supported on commodity processors from 2008 onward. Our prototype implementation introduces 3% overhead for FHE evaluation, and 8% for more complex protocols. In particular, we show that Argos can be used for real-world applications of FHE, such as private …
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Hedging strategies to manage commodity price risk
Price fluctuations in commodity markets can have a significant impact on potential profits, both for those who use and produce that commodity. Commodity prices, which are based on the supply and demand of a market, are very volatile and it is nearly impossible to predict exactly which way a price …
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Limits to Arbitrage and Commodity Index Investment
The dramatic growth of commodity index investment over the last decade has caused a heated debate regarding its impact on commodity prices among legislators, practitioners and academics. This paper focuses on the unique rolling activity of commodity index investors in the commodity futures markets …
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