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Integal futures based on the paradigm approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The study discusses the interpretation of integral futures in the context of paradigm. The dynamic matrix model of futures paradigm has been developed for carrying out meta-analysis of futures.
Bell   +40 more
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Credible Futures [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2021
AbstractThis paper articulates in formal terms a crucial distinction concerning future contingents, the distinction between what is true about the future and what is reasonable to believe about the future. Its key idea is that the branching structures that have been used so far to model truth can be employed to define an epistemic property, credibility,
A. Iacona, S. Iaquinto
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Historical futures and future futures in environmental law pedagogy: exploring ‘futures literacy’

open access: yesInternational Journal of Law in Context, 2022
AbstractIn this paper, we begin reflecting on how ‘futures literacy’ – recently championed by UNESCO as a vital skill that allows people to better understand the role of the future in what they see and do – might be developed in environmental law pedagogy.
Stokes, Elen, Pontin, Ben
openaire   +1 more source

A model of financialization of commodities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We analyze how institutional investors entering commodity futures markets, referred to as the financialization of commodities, affect commodity prices. Institutional investors care about their performance relative to a commodity index.
Basak, S, Pavlova, A
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Application of derivatives market for controlling risks of commodity prices / Išvestinių finansinių priemonių taikymas žaliavų kainų rizikai valdyti

open access: yesMokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2015
The issue of raw milk procurement cost level and fluctuation which inhibits strengthening negotiating positions of dairy product fabricants and probability of them staying competitive in the European Union, is examined.
Rasuolė Drazdauskienė   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building Jetties to the Future: Thinking and Doing Social Work in a ‘Moment of Danger.’

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2023
This paper engages the core question animating the 2021 Social Work Futures conference: What ‘social work’ does the world need now, and in the years to come?
Susan P. Kemp
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Queering generativity and futurity: LGBTQ2IA+ stories of resistance, resurgence, and resilience

open access: yesInternational Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2021
A preoccupation with heteronormative metrics of success in aging leaves many studies of “LGBT aging” focused on the needs, failings, and vul­nerabilities of older LGBTQ2IA+ people (i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, two-spirit, intersex, asexual,
May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin
doaj   +1 more source

Composite and Outlook Forecast Accuracy

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2012
This paper investigates whether the accuracy of outlook hog price forecasts can be improved using composite forecasts in an out-of-sample context. Price forecasts from four widely-recognized outlook programs are combined with futures-based forecasts ...
Evelyn V. Colino   +3 more
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Liquidity management and futures hedging under deposit insurance: An option-based analysis [PDF]

open access: yesYugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 2004
Theories on financial futures hedging are generally based on a portfolio-choice approach. This paper presents an alterative: a firm-theoretic model of bank behavior with financial futures under deposit insurance.
Lin Jyh-Horng, Chang Chuen-Ping
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Implication of two new paradigms for futures studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The paper considers the emergence of two recent perspectives in futures work. One is evolutionary futures studies. The other is critical futures studies.
Bell   +13 more
core   +1 more source

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