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Consumers’ Willingness-to-Pay for Retail Branded Beef Products with Bundled Attributes

Franken, Jason R.V.; Parcell, Joseph L.; Tonsor, Glynn T. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

With a declining share of the domestic meat market, some beef producers are becoming more attentive to opportunities for value-added products tailored to the desires of certain consumer segments. Using a survey of St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri meat consumers, this study investigates...

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CASH ETHANOL CROSS-HEDGING OPPORTUNITIES

Franken, Jason R.V.; Parcell, Joseph L. - 2002

Increased use of alternative fuels and low commodity prices have contributed to the recent expansion of the ethanol industry. As with any competitive industry, there exists some level of output price risk in the form of volatility. Yet, no actively traded ethanol futures market exists to...

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THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF IMPLIED VOLATILITY FROM OPTIONS ON AGRICULTURAL FUTURES CONTRACTS

Manfredo, Mark R.; Sanders, Dwight R. - 2002

Agricultural risk managers need forecasts of price volatility that are accurate and meaningful. This is especially true given the greater emphasis on firm level risk measurement and management (e.g., Value-at-Risk and Enterprise Risk Management). Implied volatility is known to provide a readily...

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Price Discovery in Private Cash Forward Markets - The Case of Lumber

Sanders, Dwight R.; Manfredo, Mark R. - 2005

Cash forward contracting is a common, and often preferred, means of managing price risk for agribusinesses. Despite this, little is known about the performance of cash forward markets, in particular the role they play in price discovery. The lumber market provides a unique case for examining...

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GENERALIZED HEDGE RATIO ESTIMATION WITH AN UNKNOWN MODEL

Dorfman, Jeffrey H.; Sanders, Dwight R. - 2004

Myers and Thompson (1989) pioneered the concept of a generalized approach to estimating hedge ratios, pointing out that the model specification could have a large impact on the hedge ratio estimated. While a huge empirical literature exists on estimating hedge ratios, the literature is lacking a...

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DOES THE CFTC COMMITMENTS OF TRADERS REPORT CONTAIN USEFUL INFORMATION?

Sanders, Dwight R.; Boris, Keith - 2000

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Commitments of Traders data are examined. Non-commercial positions are thought to contain the least amount of measurement error. Although non-commercials comprise a relatively small percent of the tested markets' open interest (10% to 22%), they have...

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Devil or Angel? The Role of Speculation in the Recent Commodity Price Boom (and Bust)

Irwin, Scott H.; Sanders, Dwight R.; Merrin, Robert P. - 2009

It is commonly asserted that speculative buying by index funds in commodity futures andover–the–counter derivatives markets created a ‘‘bubble’’ in commodity prices, with the resultthat prices, and crude oil prices, in particular, far exceeded fundamental values at the peak.The...

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PERCEPTIONS OF MARKETING STRATEGIES: PRODUCERS VERSUS EXTENSION ECONOMISTS

Schroeder, Ted C.; Parcell, Joseph L.; Kastens, Terry L.; … - 1998

Extension marketing economists commit substantial resources to outlook and market analysis. Producers demand this … information and use it to make production and marketing decisions. This study analyzes responses to a marketing survey of … producers and extension marketing economists to discern similarities and differences in their perceptions regarding market …

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Financialization and Structural Change in Commodity Futures Markets

Irwin, Scott H.; Sanders, Dwight R. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 44 (2012) 03

The first decade of the 21st century has perhaps witnessed more structural change in commodity futures markets than all previous decades combined. Not only have trading volumes and open interest increased markedly, but this time period also saw historic changes in both trading and participants....

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Consumer Preference Variation between Domestic and Imported Food

Parcell, Joseph L.; Gedikoglu, Haluk - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

Increasing concerns about a healthy diet, food safety and support for the local economy provide new opportunities for farmers to increase their farm income by locally selling their farm products. The major challenge for farmers making local sales is to predict consumer preferences correctly and...

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