We explore empirically the incidence of price discovery for black pepper in the spot market and the nearby and first distant futures markets with October 2001 to February 2003 daily data from Kerala, India. Modern time series methods of cointegration and directed acyclic graphs show that price...

This dissertation examines several issues regarding the congestion on the UpperMississippi River and Illinois Waterway. Chapter II identifies and measures the impactof lock congestion on grain barge rates on these waterways. Results indicate grain bargerates on both rivers are not affected by...