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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Forward Contracting"”.
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The Cost of Forward Contracting in Mississippi River Barge Freight and CIF NOLA Markets
… trading. Typically, merchandisers use futures or forward contracts to perform these transactions. However, in order to liquidate a cash grain position, grain transportation must be arranged in order to deliver the grain to the buyer. For elevators located along the Mississippi River system selling …
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Market design opportunities for an evolving power system
… competition on producer market power and forward contracting. We show that increased retail competition could decrease forward contracting and increase electricity prices; this is a downside to the general trend of increased access to retail electricity competition. Finally, we propose new …
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Three Essays on Commodity Risk Management
… the cost (i.e., risk premium) of pre-harvest forward contracting for wheat in Illinois and Kansas. Given the similarities between forward and futures markets, regression models used for testing the risk premium hypothesis in futures markets are applied to forward markets. Cost is estimated for …
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Factors Affecting Cotton Producers' Choice of Marketing Outlet
… between four different cash market outlets: forward contracting with a merchant, post-harvest cash contracting, contracting with a merchant pool and contracting with a cooperative pool. Hedging was characterized as a tool that was used in conjunction with one of the four discrete choices. …
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Farm-Level Evidence on Risk -Balancing Strategies of Illinois Grain Farmers Against Increasing Income Risk
… model that takes on a more forward-looking perspective. The goal is to prescribe an optimal strategic plan that allows synergy between risk-balancing and other risk management strategies. The programming model was applied to four farm scenarios. The Base Farm scenario employs …
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Optimising the mix and structure of successor companies in electricity market restructuring: the theory and evidence of Indonesia
… Residual Supply Index/RSI) and the influence of forward contracting but also for direct current load flow and the topology of the electric power system.<br/><br/>This research focuses on designing competitive successor companies with theoretical and empirical analysis in electricity market …
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Essays in Power System Economics
… In the second chapter, we model the effects of forward contracting on power prices in wholesale electricity markets. In contrast to most of the previous literature, we explicitly model power retailers, and introduce risk aversion. As expected, increasing the number of players have …
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Cattle price risk management strategies-using computer simulation to educate Iowa producers of available tools
… of price risk management strategies such as forward contracting, hedging, using put and call options, Livestock Risk Protection Insurance (LRP), as well as Livestock Gross Insurance (LGM) for feedlot cattle. Learning about such price risk management tools can be a daunting task. Kansas State …