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New types of non-trade related participation in commodity futures markets

Rutten, Lamon - EconWPA - 2003

involvement of banks. The impact of this new form of "speculation" on the price formation process on commodity futures markets is …

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An Analysis of the Profiles and Motivations of Habitual Commodity Speculators

Canoles, W. Bruce; Thompson, Sarahelen R.; Irwin, Scott H. - EconWPA - 1997

The focus of this study is the habitual speculator in commodity futures markets. The speculator's activity broadens a market, creates essential liquidity, and performs an irreplaceable pricing function. Working knowledge of the profiles and motivations of habitual speculators is essential to...

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Speculation in First-Price Auctions with Resale

Troger, Thomas - EconWPA - 2003

We analyze first-price auctions with two asymmetric bidders, where the winner can offer the good for resale to the loser. One bidder has a private value for the good, the other bidder - the speculator - has zero value. We show that, independently of the resale market rules, the speculator's...

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Speculation in Second-Price Auctions with Resale

Garratt, Rod; Troger, Thomas - EconWPA - 2003

equilibria that are profitable for a speculator. With no reserve price in the initial auction, speculation can enhance the … initial seller's expected revenue. On the other hand, speculation can harm the initial seller even if she chooses an optimal …

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Macroeconomics of Speculation

Erturk, Korkut - EconWPA - 2005

speculation per se, ignoring asset price bubbles and their macroeconomic effects. That is perhaps because his views were formed … during the era of financial regulation, when speculation “could do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise … a whirlpool of speculation” has begun to ring true again. To deepen our understanding of financial fragility under …

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Speculation in Standard Auctions with Resale

Garratt, Rod; Troger, Thomas - EconWPA - 2004

We analyze the role resale creates for zero-value bidders, called speculators, in standard auctions with symmetric independent private values buyers. English/second-price auctions always have equilibria with active resale markets and positive profits for a speculator. In first- price/Dutch...

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Birth Spacing and Child Survival: Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated hazard processes, allowing for mother- specific...

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Economically Active Children and Home-care Children: How Much They Differ

Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005

for both groups of children in Pakistan, our study compares the determinants of the two groups to check whether they have …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...

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