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The Value of USDA Situation and Outlook Information in Hog and Cattle Markets

Good, Darrel L.; Irwin, Scott H.; Isengildina, Olga - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 31 (2006) 02

This study investigates the impact of six major USDA reports in hog and cattle markets: Cattle; Cattle on Feed; Cold Storage; Hogs and Pigs; Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook (LDPO); and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE). A TARCH-in-mean model, with dummy variables to measure...

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THE PROFITABILITY OF TECHNICAL TRADING RULES IN US FUTURES MARKETS: A DATA SNOOPING FREE TEST

Park, Cheol-Ho; Irwin, Scott H. - NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, … - 2004

Numerous empirical studies have investigated the profitability of technical trading rules in a wide variety of markets, and many of them found positive profits. Despite positive evidence about profitability and improvements in testing procedures, skepticism about technical trading profits...

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THE MARKETING PERFORMANCE OF ILLINOIS CORN AND SOYBEAN PRODUCERS

Hagedorn, Lewis A.; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L. - NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, … - 2004

Marketing is viewed as an important component of the farm management process, and poor marketing is often cited as a …, and available evidence is too limited to make definitive conclusions about farmer marketing abilities. This paper examines … the actual marketing performance of corn and soybean producers in Illinois. Farmer marketing data is based on the USDA …

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The Impact of Market Advisory Service Recommendations on Producers' Marketing Decisions

Pennings, Joost M.E.; Isengildina, Olga; Irwin, Scott H.; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 29 (2004) 02

producers' marketing philosophy, are important factors explaining the impact of MAS recommendations. Risk attitude does not …' marketing decisions …

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OPTIMAL HEDGING WITH VIEWS: A BAYESIAN APPROACH

Shi, Wei; Irwin, Scott H. - NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, … - 2004

The optimal hedging model has become the standard theoretical model of normative hedging behavior due to its intuitive tradeoff of expected return with risk, its effcient use of information and its easy implementation. In practice, the model can be easily implemented with the Parameter Certainty...

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