returns. S&P 500 linked index derivatives have meaningful exposure to dividend risk. Globally, index dividends are widely … from individual sectors may contribute differently in dissimilar environments. The S&P 500 Dividend Index isolates dividend …. Applications include: • Hedging: The index can be used as the underlying basis to hedge dividend risk embedded in index derivatives …

, we embed a novel quarterly composite global production index for the four basic staples (corn, wheat, rice and soybeans … turn out to be a multiple of the maximum impact implied by the share of food commodities in the consumer price index and …

trade for a good and propose the new net comparative advantage index that has several strong features. First, it reflects … focused on a single commodity (that is, it takes world trade structure into consideration), unlike net export index. Fourth …. Finally, its sign is consistent with the sign of the net trade. We compare the new index with CEPII theoretically grounded …