1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOBE00043288

Titolo

Collana di pubblicazioni storiche, artistiche e letterarie aretine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Arezzo : Ugo Viviani

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Collezione

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462957403321

Titolo

Futures markets : their establishment and performance / / edited by Barry A. Goss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-48870-9

1-135-04751-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Routledge Revivals

Altri autori (Persone)

GossB. A

Disciplina

332.64/4

Soggetti

Futures market

Commodity exchanges

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1986 by Croom Helm Ltd"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Futures Markets; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Feasibility and the Consequences of Using Information in Futures Markets; 1. An Institutional Analysis of Futures Contracting; 2. Experimental Futures Markets; 3. Hedging, Risk and Profits: Notes on Motives for Hedging on Futures Markets; 4. Intertemporal Allocation in the Australian Wool Market; 5. An Analysis of Investment Horizon and Alternative Risk-return Measures for Commodity Futures Markets

6. Trading Volume and Price Variability: New Evidence on the Price



Effects of Speculation7. The Forward Pricing Function of the London Metal Exchange; 8. An Analysis of Gold Futures Prices in Large and Small Markets; 9. The Distribution of Returns in Sydney Wool Futures; 10. Conjectured Models for Trends in Financial Prices, Tests and Forecasts; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1986, this book discusses many important aspects of the theory and practice of Futures Markets. It describes how they, at the time, grew to be an increasingly important feature of the world's major financial centres. Indeed, they adopted the role of being efficient forward pricing mechanisms and this was reflected by the interest of economists in the study of risk, uncertainty and information. Here, the contributors focus on areas that were of concern in the late 1980s such as feasibility, forward pricing and returns, and the modelling of price determination in Futures Ma