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Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Principles and practice of declarative programming, 2009
Many recent research projects focus on language support for behavioral software contracts, that is, assertions that govern the boundaries between software building blocks such as procedures, classes, or modules. Contracts primarily help locate bugs in programs, but they also tend to affect the performance of the program, especially as they become ...
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Many recent research projects focus on language support for behavioral software contracts, that is, assertions that govern the boundaries between software building blocks such as procedures, classes, or modules. Contracts primarily help locate bugs in programs, but they also tend to affect the performance of the program, especially as they become ...
Christos Dimoulas +2 more
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Futures Contracts and Futures Markets
1996Abstract This is the first of two chapters dealing with futures contracts, and it concentrates on the defining characteristics of a futures contract, on ways in which it can be settled, on types of commodities and financial instruments in which futures trading is likely to be successful, and on measures of the importance of futures ...
Hendrik S. Houthakker +1 more
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AGRICULTURAL FINANCE REVENUE FUTURES CONTRACT
International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2004To respond to financial compound risk of farmers, two multiplicative derivative contracts, called respectively revenue futures contract and revenue put option, are proposed. The paper presents the theoretical management strategy of such a contract under the constraint that price and crop yield futures contracts are quoted.
Phélippé-Guinvarc'H, Martial +2 more
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2007
Abstract A futures contract is a standardized version of a forward contract. A forward contract is an agreement under which one person agrees to deliver a specified quantity of a good to a second person at a specified future time in exchange for a price that is specified when the contract is made.
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Abstract A futures contract is a standardized version of a forward contract. A forward contract is an agreement under which one person agrees to deliver a specified quantity of a good to a second person at a specified future time in exchange for a price that is specified when the contract is made.
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2020
The chapter explores yet another Islamic micro-finance experiment. In focus is a multidimensional set of indeterminate relations articulated amongst four parties: a big multinational company in the process of discharging its corporate social responsibility, a highly valued Islamic welfare organisation keen to implement an Islamic vision for a future ...
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The chapter explores yet another Islamic micro-finance experiment. In focus is a multidimensional set of indeterminate relations articulated amongst four parties: a big multinational company in the process of discharging its corporate social responsibility, a highly valued Islamic welfare organisation keen to implement an Islamic vision for a future ...
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Journal of Financial Research, 1990
AbstractThis study provides a valuation model to price Commodity Research Bureau Index futures contracts, now traded at the New York Futures Exchange. An empirical analysis suggests that substantial mispricing was exhibited during the early months of trading in an unseasoned Commodity Research Bureau Index futures market.
Michael C. Ehrhardt, Alan L. Tucker
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AbstractThis study provides a valuation model to price Commodity Research Bureau Index futures contracts, now traded at the New York Futures Exchange. An empirical analysis suggests that substantial mispricing was exhibited during the early months of trading in an unseasoned Commodity Research Bureau Index futures market.
Michael C. Ehrhardt, Alan L. Tucker
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International Review of Law and Economics, 1985
Abstract Futures markets play an important role in shifting risk and facilitating exchange. Yet despite their growing importance economists do not yet possess a satisfactory theory of the evolution and growth of futures markets.1 In the law-and-economics literature there is an assumption that parties will seek to specify their obligations completely ...
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Abstract Futures markets play an important role in shifting risk and facilitating exchange. Yet despite their growing importance economists do not yet possess a satisfactory theory of the evolution and growth of futures markets.1 In the law-and-economics literature there is an assumption that parties will seek to specify their obligations completely ...
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Spanning with futures contracts
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2013Abstract Regression-based testing techniques have long been used to quantify whether the efficient frontier of a set of assets spans the frontier of a larger collection of investments. This paper derives regression-based spanning tests for the case in which the investment possibilities set contains, or is constituted by, futures contracts for which ...
Valentina Galvani, André Plourde
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Market Index Futures Contracts
Financial Analysts Journal, 1980* Investors may soon be able to trade futures contracts in stock market averages. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange plans a contract based on the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index. The Chicago Board of Trade has proposed several market index futures contracts, including one based on an index of its own construction.
Victor Niederhoffer, Richard Zeckhauser
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Wholesale Beef Futures Contract
2018In this research, we develop methods to derive a price series that is theoretically sound for a hypothetical futures contract. We extend a futures valuation model to provide a valuation for a hypothetical futures contract. One such hypothetical contract that has been suggested as a possible solution to recent problems in live cattle futures is the ...
Thompson, Robert S. +5 more
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