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Reduced reliance on cash market prices for fed cattle and hogs raise questions about the role of cash prices in price discovery. We use seven years of weekly data from mandatory price reports to determine whether or not cash market prices are cointegrated with other procurement prices and then...
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paper first measures the extent to which producers display an active or mechanical marketing style using individual farmer … sales. Next, tests of performance persistence are conducted to determine if there is any advantage to an active marketing … style. The results show that southern Oklahoma wheat producers tend to have a mechanical marketing style, while at other …
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The inaccuracy of the Black-Scholes formula arises from two aspects: the formula is for European options while most real option contracts are American; the formula is based on the assumption that underlying asset prices follow a lognormal distribution while in the real world asset prices cannot...
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agricultural marketing. Information asymmetries among bidders may be ameliorated over time through some form of learning. In this …
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Price risk management problems confronting grain processors differ somewhat from conventional motives for hedging. There are two components of this problem that are addressed in this study. One is the competitive characteristics of the processing sector, the structure and conduct of which...
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Agricultural firms that use Value at Risk (VaR) tend to be the large diversified corporations. The benefits of VaR in the agricultural industry are not limited to large conglomerates; however, and this study provides empirical examples of how mid to large sized commodity end-users can use VaR to...
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Bidding competition plays an important role in price discovery and the determination of suppliers in international grains. In this paper we analyzeinternational bidding competition for wheat for a specific importer. Tender data over the period 1993-1999 were analyzed and bid functions estimated...
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Futures prices when combined with a basis forecast provide a reliable way to forecast cashprices. The most popular method of forecasting basis is historical moving averages. Given therecent failure of longer moving averages proposed by previous studies, this research reassessespast...
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This study compares liquidity costs and other characteristics of electronic and open outcry hard red winter wheat futures contracts traded on the Kansas City Board of Trade. Liquidity costs are considerably lower in the electronic market than in the open outcry market. A new approach is used to...
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