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Showing 1 to 20 of 1041 for “"futures"”.
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Forest futures
… ecosystem actor. Forest (and Californian) futures will depend on looking beyond the crisis of fire for opportunities within the fire cycle. This project proposes 'forest futures' in three chapters, each located at a point within the northern Californian mixed-conifer fire cycle - fighting …
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ARBITRAGE STRATEGIES IN PERPETUAL FUTURES AND STOCK INDEX FUTURES
… The first part analyzes arbitrage in perpetual futures, which track underlying prices through a funding swap mechanism. We show that the clamping function embedded in the mechanism—previously overlooked in the literature—creates inherent no-arbitrage bounds that persist even in the absence of …
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Design Futures : An Investigation into the Role of Futures Thinking in Design.
… aim of this thesis is to investigate the role of futures thinking in design. It draws upon the field of future studies to provide a theoretical base for the research. The research answers three questions: How do designers engage with the future within the design process? What futures thinking …
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The Futures of Flight
… As these limits expand a number of potential futures arise. Once a futuristic fantasy, flight has become commonplace in modern society. Unfortunately, the formerly romantic experience of flying has become increasingly mundane as demand for commercial air travel grows. Struggling to keep up …
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Digital Pasts Analog Futures
The Digital Pasts Analog Futures PhD thesis focuses on the future, exploring whether analogue values will continue to be needed in human existence, communication, learning and development in the age of digitization and beyond. The subject of the research is handwriting, a human activity that is not …
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Sporting Pasts – Tourist Futures
The last fifteen years has seen significant growth and advancement in the study of sport tourism. The publication of numerous texts, journal and conference papers - along with the progress made to the Journal of Sport and Tourism are testament to the subject’s maturity. In tandem with these …
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Physical Education Teacher Education Futures
ABSTRACT The purpose of study one was to describe the influence of occupational socialization on the physical education teacher education (PETE) programs sport pedagogy doctoral students’ (DSs) intended to deliver once they began life as faculty members in universities and colleges. Participants …
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Futures spreads: theory and praxis
… utilise spread trading to engage in the futures market. Most of the literature dedicated to futures spreads was published between the late 1970s and early 1990s, and has partly lost its relevance. This is because of the emergence of new financial instruments, changed relationships and …
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Positive Futures for Serbian Sport
… investigation of the opportunities for ‘positive futures’ in and through sport in Serbia. It critically explores the social significance of established and emerging sports—football (grassroots programme) and rugby league—in the challenging social context of Serbian society via the theoretical …
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Three Essays on Futures Markets
… of the spot return and the correlation between futures and spot prices. The studies identify that the optimal hedge ratios are relatively sensitive to transaction fees and heterogeneous expectations of futures returns particularly when the spot returns are low. In addition, the optimal …
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Default-free bond futures and options on default-free bond futures: Theoretical and empirical investigation
… the pricing behaviors of default-free bond futures and American options on default-free bond futures based on the framework of Brennan and Schwartz (1979). In their model, the state space of interest-rate-dependent claims is spanned by the instantaneous spot interest rate and the long-term …
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Two Essays on Oil Futures Markets
… of two major exchanges on crude oil futures to the price discovery process-- Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), using trade-by-trade data in 2008. The study also empirically analyzes the effects of trading characteristics on the information share of …
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Information transmission in energy futures markets
… process has been dominated by two crude oil futures markets: the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE). To date considerable work has been done to scrutinize the degree to which these two markets price efficiently, but little with regard to …
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Modeling Global and Regional Energy Futures
Using a defined tropical/temperate disaggregation of the world, region-specific modeling results are presented for population growth, GDP growth, energy use, and carbon use compatible with a gradual transition to energy sustainability. Results for the fractions of energy use from various sources by …
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Three essays in commodity futures markets
… 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 Working curve for CBOT corn, soybeans, and wheat markets and the KCBT wheat market using 1990-2010 data. Two spread …
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Three Essays On Agricultural Futures Traders
… study of the growth and impact of agricultural futures market traders. The growth of financial investment in commodities has introduced participants and raised both new questions and warranted revisiting old questions; these include the impact on commodity prices, the profitability of traders, …
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Hedge cities : gambling on regional futures
Environmental degradation, automobile dependence, anticipated rapid population growth and spatial inequity have combined to form the basis for recent North American regional plans advocating a physical alternative to diffuse, uncoordinated development. To provide a physical place in which …
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Systems of Visualization for Musical Futures
… that visualize the AI’s planned “musical futures.” The latter combines a real-time, MIDI-conditioned, Transformer-based hand-motion model with deterministic, pattern-based mappings that signal states such as resting and regeneration. Audience surveys indicate that viewers perceived links …
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Petroleum futures trading and price volatility
This study investigates the effects of futures trading on petroleum price variability. Though a number of critics from various quarters claim futures markets have made petroleum prices more volatile, economic reasoning does not support this viewpoint. A review of theoretical studies and empirical …
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