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Commodities into food

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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Commodity and Contradiction, or, Contradiction as Commodity

October, 1976
[Editors' Note: The following is an exchange between Carl Andre and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, in the form of responses to previously agreedupon questions. Instead of answering the questions, one-by-one, Andre wrote a short text, which we have printed as the second part of this document.
Carl Andre, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
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Commodity speculation and commodity investment [PDF]

, 2008
I distinguish between speculation and index-based investment in commodity futures stressing the differing motivations of the two groups and the differing instruments that they use. I discuss the amounts of money deployed in these activities. I document evidence of extrapolative behaviour in metals prices, consistent with speculation affecting prices ...
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Should Commodity Investors Follow Commodities' Prices?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Summary: 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, Antonella Tolomeo, Gu Wang 0002   +2 more
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Chevron: Outsourcing Commodity Processes in a Commodity Business

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
Faced 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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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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When a Commodity Is Not Exactly a Commodity

Science, 2008
Economic transactions for services such as health and elder care are complicated by personal interactions and emotional connections.
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The Economics of Commodities and Commodity Markets

2018
This 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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Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities

2009
This 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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Geopolitical risk and dynamic connectedness between commodity markets

Energy Economics, 2022
Xu Gong
exaly