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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, 1985
Abstract It is not surprising that past predictions of the extent of adoption of new technology by the food and agricultural industries have only been partly realized. This is a result of the difficulty of forecasting the take-up of technology that is capable of being transferred from other industries, for example, process control ...
J, Edelman, A, Fewell
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Abstract It is not surprising that past predictions of the extent of adoption of new technology by the food and agricultural industries have only been partly realized. This is a result of the difficulty of forecasting the take-up of technology that is capable of being transferred from other industries, for example, process control ...
J, Edelman, A, Fewell
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1966
I have recently been doing a bit of reflecting about the thing that we call leisure . This urge, I suppose, has arisen subconsciously from the memory of the many occasions in medical practice when I advised a patient "to take things easily for a bit," without giving much thought to what I meant by the injunction or without spelling it out in terms of ...
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I have recently been doing a bit of reflecting about the thing that we call leisure . This urge, I suppose, has arisen subconsciously from the memory of the many occasions in medical practice when I advised a patient "to take things easily for a bit," without giving much thought to what I meant by the injunction or without spelling it out in terms of ...
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Chevron: Outsourcing Commodity Processes in a Commodity Business
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007Faced with a large number of impending retirements, Chevron intended to downsize by outsourcing commodity services. In 2004 management recognized that taking advantage of the growing number of services available on the market required new competencies. This case describes how Chevron learned to identify appropriate outsourcing opportunities and how the
Beath, Cynthia M., Ross, Jeanne W.
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Should Commodity Investors Follow Commodities' Prices?
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018Summary: Most institutional investors gain access to commodities through diversified index funds, even though mean-reverting prices and low correlation among commodities' returns suggest that two-fund separation does not hold for commodities. In contrast to demand for stocks and bonds, we find that, on average, demand for commodities is largely ...
Paolo Guasoni +2 more
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The Need of Transparency in Commodity and Commodity Derivatives Markets [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Given the high level of uncertainty in commodity markets, this paper argues the need for transparency-boosting measures specifically tailored to commodity and commodity derivatives markets. In particular, encouraging the creation of a clearing infrastructure for OTC commodity and commodity derivatives markets would be desirable. Moreover, EU regulators
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The Economics of Commodities and Commodity Markets
2018This chapter covers the economic fundamentals of commodity markets (i.e., what shapes the evolution of the price of raw materials) in three steps. First, it covers the theories explaining why the futures curve can be upward or downward sloping, an essential element for commodity producing companies.
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When a Commodity Is Not Exactly a Commodity
Science, 2008Economic transactions for services such as health and elder care are complicated by personal interactions and emotional connections.
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Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities
2009This chapter is devoted to Sraffa’s major contribution: a relatively slender volume — 92 pages of text, including the Preface — work on which began in 1927, when the author moved to Cambridge, and was finally published in 1960 in English, with the Italian edition following a few weeks later.1 As we shall see, in Production of Commodities by Means of ...
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Asymmetric relationship between green bonds and commodities: Evidence from extreme quantile approach
Finance Research Letters, 2021Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary +2 more
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