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This study reports new findings on the behavior of index futures (FKLI: code name of Kuala Lumpur Index Futures … contract) prices and also records the effect of a major financial crisis on the prices. Since the inception of trading in 1995 … crisis in July 1997, FKLI prices were at a high premium relative to its theoretical values. This significant mispricing of …
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This study investigates the predictability of outlook hog price forecasts released by Iowa State University relative to alternative market and time-series forecasts. The findings suggest that predictive performance of the outlook hog price forecasts can be improved substantially. Under RMSE,...
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Admits fixing lumber prices. - "Question of jail or poorhouse" in 1916 for mill men, says Bloedel. - At federal hearing … trade commission that the company controlled prices by coercion, declared that "it was a question of the jail or the …
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Asserts lumber prices not fixed. - Seattle broker testifies in behalf of Douglas Fir Exploitation Company. - R. D. King … federal trade commission that the Douglas Fir Exploitation and Export company controlled the prices of lumber by coercion …, then he "knew that there was no effort made to fix domestic prices." …
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Weyerhaeuser Sales company, yesterday. The recent slump in lumber prices has been due to overproduction, and by curtailing the …
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Lumber price goes up. - Weyerhaeuser trustees told plan is to better earnings. - Trustees of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Corporation help their quarterly meeting yesterday at the office of the corporation in the Old National building. T. J. Humbird of Spokane, president of the Humbird Lumber company,...
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on prices andsocial welfare of the structural separation. Our results indicate thatthe structural separation would lead …
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An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices.While the standard view is that competition … lowers prices, Chen andRiordan (2006) argued that with product differentiation it is notexceptional for prices to be higher … under duopoly than monopoly. Thispaper empirically investigates one implication from Chen and Riordan,namely, that prices …
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This paper empirically investigates the effect of international simpleresale (ISR) authorization on the prices for … bilateral markets from 1995 to2004. These data provide detailed information on prices, variable costs,fixed costs and market … market concentration is negatively correlatedwith IMTS prices set by incumbent firms. …
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The Petroleum Marketing Monthly (PMM) provides information and statistical data on a variety of crude oils and refined petroleum products. The publication presents statistics on crude oil costs and refined petroleum products sales for use by industry, government, private sector analysts,...
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