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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goss, B. A.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Futures market.

Commodity exchanges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

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

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 17, 2013).

ISBN:

1-135-04750-2

0-203-48870-9

1-135-04751-0

9780203488706

OCLC:

842885340