1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480895303321

Titolo

Commodity, Futures and Financial Markets [[electronic resource] /] / edited by L. Phlips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1991

ISBN

94-011-3354-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 1991.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 301 p.)

Collana

Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, , 1570-5811 ; ; 21

Disciplina

330.015195

Soggetti

Econometrics

Microeconomics

Finance

Industrial organization

Finance, general

Industrial Organization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

I: Export Earnings -- 1. Market Solutions to the Problem of Stabilizing Commodity Earnings -- 2. Hedging Commodity Export Earnings with Futures and Options Contracts -- 3. Options to Alleviate the Costs of Uncertainty and Stability: A Case Study of Zambia -- II: Financial Markets and Commodity Prices -- 4. The Response of Primary Commodity Prices to Exchange Rate Changes -- 5. Exchange Rates and Storables Prices -- 6. An Evaluation of the Performance of Speculative Markets -- 7. Dynamic Welfare Analysis and Commodity Futures Markets Overshooting -- III: Monopolistic Commodity Markets -- 8. Futures Trading for Imperfect Cash Markets: A Survey -- 9. Duopoly, Inventories and Futures Markets -- 10. Monopsony Power and the Period of Commitment in Nonrenewable Resource Markets.

Sommario/riassunto

Louis Phlips The stabilisation of primary commodity prices, and the related issue of the stabilisation of export earnings of developing countries, have traditionally been studied without reference to the futures markets (that exist or could exist) for these commodities. These futures markets have in turn been s~udied in isolation. The same is



true for the new developments on financial markets. Over the last few years, in particular sine the 1985 tin crisis and the October 1987 stock exchange crisis, it has become evident that there are inter­ actions between commodity, futures, and financial markets and that these inter­ actions are very important. The more so as trade on futures and financial markets has shown a spectacular increase. This volume brings together a number of recent and unpublished papers on these interactions by leading specialists (and their students). A first set of papers examines how the use of futures markets could help stabilising export earnings of developing countries and how this compares to the rather unsuccessful UNCTAD type interventions via buffer stocks, pegged prices and cartels. A second set of papers faces the fact, largely ignored in the literature, that commodity prices are determined in foreign currencies, with the result that developing countries suffer from the volatility of exchange rates of these currencies (even in cases where commodity prices are relatively stable). Financial markets are thus explicitly linked to futures and commodity markets.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971139303321

Autore

Hutcheon Linda <1947->

Titolo

Narcissistic Narrative : The Metafictional Paradox / / Linda Hutcheon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , [2013]

©2013

Beaconsfield, Quebec : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2014

ISBN

1-55458-910-X

1-55458-908-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

809.3

809.3/04

809.304

Soggetti

Fiction - Technique

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Originally published: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©1980. This edition includes a new preface.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Modes & Forms of Narrative Narcissism: Introduction of a Typology -- Process & Product: The Implications of Metafiction for the Theory of the Novel as a Mimetic Genre -- Thematizing Narrative Artifice: Parody, Allegory, & the Mise En Abyme -- Freedom Through Artifice: The French Lieutenants Woman -- Actualizing Narrative Structures: Detective Plot, Fantasy, Games, & the Erotic -- The Language of Fiction: Creating the Heterocosm of Fictive Referents -- The Theme of Linguistic identity: La Maccina Modiale -- Generative Word Play: The Outer Limits of the Novel Genre -- Composite Identity: The Reader, the Writer, the Critic -- Conclusion & Speculations.

Sommario/riassunto

Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such a development for both the theory of the novel and reading theory.     Having placed this phenomenon in its historical context Linda Hutcheon uses the insights of various reader-response theories to explore the "paradox" created by metafiction: the reader is, at the same time, co-creator of the sel