onsider an individual holding a commodity that is subject to price risk be-C cause of factors affecting the future demand for this commodity. For example, the commodity might be a raw material whose price fluctuates randomly because of cyclical disturbances. If a futures market exists for the commod
The supply of storage in energy futures markets
✍ Scribed by Dong W. Cho; Gerald S. McDougall
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 652 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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✦ Synopsis
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