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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"price risk"”.
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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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Electricity Markets Price Risk, Pollution, and Policies
… the importance of ramping cost to electricity price volatility. High price volatility has plagued electricity market participants for decades and is increasingly important in the context of growing intermittent renewables. Although electricity market price behavior generally has been well …
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Impact of Price Risk on Aggregate Farrowing Response
… changes have led to greater variation in the prices of agricultural commodity prices, which has increased the likelihood of price risk. The impact of increasing levels of price risk on producer response is still not well understood. This research examines the influence of price risk on the hog …
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Mechanisms for transfer of price risk of construction materials
… arrangement, fluctuations in materials prices expose different parties involved in a construction contract to various degrees of risk. In general, owners and/or contractors face the risk of losses when the prices of materials move upwards. Suppliers, on the other hand, face the risk of …
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Price risk and farmer marketing contract preferences: Evidence from India
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Understanding Organic Prices: An Analysis of Organic Price Risk and Premiums
… States Department of Agriculture command a price premium, whether it is direct to consumer via farmers markets or in conventional grocery stores. Organic food and food products are representing a relatively larger portion of overall food sales in recent years, and the demand for organic meat …
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The Spatiality of Housing Price Risk and Return in The Greater Toronto Area
Financial investment theory has concentrated on risk exposure and returns for decades. Many studies apply financial theory to the real estate market, and some of these studies control for its spatial structure. There is a deficiency, however, in studies that examine the spatial relationship of risk …
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Cattle price risk management strategies-using computer simulation to educate Iowa producers of available tools
Risk is an inevitable part of production agriculture. Price risk is especially a concern for cattle producers in the Midwest. Producers can curtail profit volatility, to an extent, through the utilization of price risk management strategies such as forward contracting, hedging, using put and call …
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Modelling electricity price risk for the valuation of power contingent claims : the case of Nord Pool
… in the international power markets has let prices to be determined by the fundamental rules of Supply and Demand, which brought a substitution from Supply Risk pre-regulation, to Price risk, thus increasing the necessity of hedging using derivatives such as futures and options and therefore …
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Financial Aspects of the American Civil War: War News, Price Risk, and the Processing of Information
… the doubling of Confederate cotton bond prices between December 1863 and September 1864 despite Confederate defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863. Offsetting adverse war news were movements in the price of the cotton collateral of the war bonds.
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Hedging natural gas price risk by electric utilities : a comparison of fuel switching to financial contracts
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1994.
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Credit derivatives : market dimensions, correlation with equity and implied option volatility, regression modeling and statistical price risk
… of hedge funds and applications beyond risk management as an acceptable trading instrument. As this market continues to grow it must address the need for specialized technology infrastructure to support continued growth and consistency in documentation to ensure confidence. We then set …
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Acreage response before and after the deregulation of the South African maize industry : the role of SAFEX in price discovery and price risk managment
… could no longer rely on their pre-planting price or "voorskat" for price discovery and price risk management. Some have claimed (UNCTAD, 2007) that the South African Futures Exchange (SAFEX) can provide these functions. We test this claim and analyse the impliacation of it.
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Cross-Hedging Bison with Live Cattle Futures
… potential for a drop in the value of bison makes price risk an important factor for producers. Following price risk theory, hedging opportunities for bison producers are investigated using the live cattle futures contract. For the time periods researched, there is no clear evidence that …
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A Stochastic Welfare Analysis of United States Rice Policy
… may improve economic welfare by reducing price risk faced by farmers. This study contributes to provide an empirical evidence on the magnitude of potential economic welfare gains of agricultural policies from reducing price risk inherent in agricultural markets.
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Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry
Studies of hog industry structure often invoke risk reduction and transaction costs explanations for empirical observations, but fail to directly examine the relevant transaction attributes. This study employs unique survey and accounting data to explain Illinois producers' marketing arrangements …
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Challenges facing the wind energy industry in South Africa : lessons learned from international experience in promoting wind energy
… change, energy security, long-term carbon price exposure, fuel price risk and fossil fuel depletion have continued to drive growth in wind energy globally over the past decade. In spite of South Africa’s renewable energy target and feed-in tariff for renewable energy, the current deployment …
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Market efficiency, volatility behaviour and asset pricing analysis of the oil & gas companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange.
… volatility behaviour, asset pricing, and oil price risk exposure of the oil and gas companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange with the aim of providing fresh evidence on the pricing dynamics in this sector. In market efficiency analysis, efficient market hypothesis (EMH) and random walk …
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