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Commodity futures markets: are they an effective price risk management tool for the European wheat supply chain?

Revoredo-Giha, Cesar; Zuppiroli, Marco - In: Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal, 3

futures markets are still useful for hedging (con- sidering the demands from different market participants), implicitly this … markets. The results indicate that hedging with futures mar- kets is still a viable alternative for dealing with price risk …

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Analysis of Price Risk Management Strategies in Dairy Farming Using Whole-Farm Simulations

Neyhard, James; Tauer, Loren; Gloy, Brent - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 45 (2013) 02

Combinations of futures and options contracts on milk and feed were simulated to determine their influence on a representative dairy farmâ€™s ability to meet cash flow requirements and reduce the variance of net income. Compared with the reference scenario of selling milk and procuring...

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Effectiveness of Capital Controls in Selected Emerging Markets in the 2000's

Baba, Chikako; Kokenyne, Annamaria - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper estimates the effectiveness of capital controls in response to inflow surges in Brazil, Colombia, Korea, and Thailand in the 2000s. Controls are generally associated with a decrease in inflows and a lengthening of maturities, but the relationship is not statistically significant in...

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Hedging Labor Income Risk

Betermier, Sebastien; Jansson, Thomas; Parlour, Christine A. - Sveriges Riksbank - 2011

We use a detailed panel data set of Swedish households to investigate the relation between their labor income risk and financial investment decisions. In particular, we relate changes in wage volatility to changes in the portfolio holdings for households that switched industries between 1999 and...

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Factors Affecting the Hedging Decision of Maize Farmers in Gauteng Province

Mofokeng, Maine; Vink, Nick - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

to international maize prices, i.e. to the forces of global supply and demand. Through forward contracting (hedging …), farmers can minimize the price risk that they are facing. Different factors affect the hedging decisions of farmers. The main … rate of adoption of hedging strategies. A Probit regression equation was estimated, and the results show that the factors …

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