Commodity futures markets: are they an effective price risk management tool for the European wheat supply chain?
The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its causes has brought renewed interest in futures markets. The paper analyses the European wheat futures markets (feed and milling) and the Chicago Board of Trade’s wheat contract as a comparison. Although...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2013-10-01
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Series: | Bio-based and Applied Economics |
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Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3244 |