Derivative Markets and Economic Growth: A South African Perspective
It is well established that financial development and innovation promote economic growth through improving the allocation of capital, enhancing risk management, contributing to price discovery, and increasing market efficiencies.
Matthew Stevens, Cobus Vermeulen
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Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals within 9 planetary boundaries
The world agreed to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Nine planetary boundaries set an upper limit to Earth system impacts of human activity in the long run.
Jorgen Randers +6 more
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Review of CCAFS Capacity Enhancement activities [PDF]
CCAFS and the CGIAR research Centers provide cutting-edge research on global climate change, agriculture and food security. CCAFS also has the objective to support Capacity Enhancement (CE) through improvements to: 1.
Climate Futures
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Commodity futures price behaviour following large one-day price changes [PDF]
This study examines individual commodity futures price reactions to large one-day price changes, or “shocks”. The mean-adjusted abnormal return model suggests that investors in 6 of the 18 commodity futures examined in this study either underreact or ...
Mazouz, Khelifa, Wang, Jian
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„BLACK-SCHOLES MODEL USED TO EVALUATE STOCKS OPTIONS” [PDF]
Partial differential equation, parabolic Black-Scholes type, is used in evaluating equity options, that paying constant and continue dividends or in evaluate options in which interest rate, volatility and dividend are dependent on time.
Turcan Radu Olimpiu Calin
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Understanding possible climate futures that include carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation modification (SRM) requires thinking not just about staying within the remaining carbon budget, but also about politics and people.
Laura M. Pereira +16 more
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Price discovery in spot and futures markets: a reconsideration [PDF]
We reconsider the issue of price discovery in spot and futures markets. We use a threshold error correction model to allow for arbitrage operations to have an impact on the return dynamics.
Theissen, Erik
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Examining the Merits of Dual Regulation for Single-Stock Futures: How the Divergent Insider Trading Regimes for Federal Futures and Securities Markets Demonstrate the Necessity for (and Virtual Inevitability of) Dual CFTCSEC Regulation for Single-Stock Futures [PDF]
[Excerpt] Single-stock futures are a recent addition to the financial landscape in the United States and provide retail and institutional investors with a new tool for investment or speculation.
Knepper, Zachary T.
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Keynote: What is the State of E-Learning? Reflections on 30 Ways Learning is Changing
This paper is based on a keynote talk delivered at the biannual DEANZ Conference, at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand in April 2016. As highlighted in that talk, we have entered Education 3.0; an age filled vast resource abundance and ...
Curtis J. Bonk
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A Challenging Conversation on Integral Futures: Embodied Foresight and Trialogues [PDF]
Practitioner reflection is vital for knowledge frameworks such as Ken Wilber's Integral perspective. Richard Slaughter, Joseph Voros and others have combined Wilber's perspective and Futures Studies to create Integral Futures as a new stance.
Burns, Alex, Floyd, Josh, Ramos, Jose
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