LEADER 03322oam 2200637I 450 001 9910462957403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-48870-9 010 $a1-135-04751-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203488706 035 $a(CKB)2670000000353039 035 $a(EBL)1181027 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001056408 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12491085 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001056408 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11036919 035 $a(PQKB)10402185 035 $a(OCoLC)842885340 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181027 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181027 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10691809 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL485198 035 $a(OCoLC)843640101 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000353039 100 $a20180706e20131986 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFutures markets $etheir establishment and performance /$fedited by Barry A. Goss 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Revivals 300 $a"First published in 1986 by Croom Helm Ltd"--T.p. verso. 311 $a0-415-83527-5 311 $a0-415-83526-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a6. 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 330 $aFirst published in 1986, this book discusses many important aspects of the theory and practice of Futures Markets. It describes how they, at the time, grew to be an increasingly important feature of the world's major financial centres. Indeed, they adopted the role of being efficient forward pricing mechanisms and this was reflected by the interest of economists in the study of risk, uncertainty and information. Here, the contributors focus on areas that were of concern in the late 1980s such as feasibility, forward pricing and returns, and the modelling of price determination in Futures Ma 410 0$aRoutledge Revivals 606 $aFutures market 606 $aCommodity exchanges 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFutures market. 615 0$aCommodity exchanges. 676 $a332.64/4 701 $aGoss$b B. A$0122894 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462957403321 996 $aFutures markets$92296491 997 $aUNINA