Commodity price gains: speculation vs. fundamentals [PDF]
Commodities of all sorts have risen in price over the past few years. Some say that the prices reflect a bubble, driven by low interest rates and excessive speculation.
Brett W. Fawley, Luciana Juvenal
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Children’s Nonfiction, Biography, and Their Responsibilities to Children
LiteratureA debate over whether children’s nonfiction should “speculate” was launched in 2011. Understood within the context of changing demands on children’s nonfiction, it reveals a contested construction of childhood and suggests that the rules of critical ...
Joe Sutliff Sanders
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Administering Systemic Risk vs. Administering Justice: What Can We Do Now that We Have Agreed to Pay Differences? [PDF]
Professor Stout's brilliant concept of disagreement-based speculation (in "Risk, Speculation, and OTC Derivatives: An Inaugural Essay for Convivium") calls for further developments and studies concerning implications for stability and resilience of the ...
Pierre-Charles Pradier
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Asymmetric Information Arrival and the Short-Run Dynamics of Australian Dollar Volatility: a Mixture of Distributions Approach [PDF]
Contemporary commentators point to excess volatility within the FX market as an indicator of market inefficiency. It is thought that the excessive volatility is being driven by speculation.
Terry Boulter
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Speculation and Demand Reduction in English Clock Auctions with Resale [PDF]
Many auctions are followed by a resale market which occurs when the winner of the auction resells the item won to one of the participants from the original auction. The existence of such transactions may initially appear counter intuitive.
Saral, Krista Jabs
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A simple model of a speculative housing market [PDF]
We develop a simple model of a speculative housing market in which the demand for houses is influenced by expectations about future housing prices. Guided by empirical evidence, agents rely on extrapolative and regressive forecasting rules to form their ...
Dieci, Roberto, Westerhoff, Frank
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Analysis of the overheads incurred due to speculation in a task based programming model [PDF]
, 2015 In order to efficiently utilize the ever increasing processing power of multi-cores, a programmer must extract as much parallelism as possible from a given application.
Ayguadé Parra, Eduard +2 more
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Razor: a low-power pipeline based on circuit-level timing speculation
Proceedings. 36th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2003. MICRO-36., 2003 Dan Ernst +10 more
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Bubbles and Experience: An Experiment on Speculation [PDF]
We investigate experimentally how the share of experienced traders in double-auction asset markets affects trading, in particular the occurrence of bubble-crash pricing patterns.
Dufwenberg, Martin +2 more
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Speculative growth and overreaction to technology shocks [PDF]
This paper develops a stochastic endogenous growth model that exhibits “excess volatility” of equity prices because speculative agents overreact to observed technology shocks.
Kevin J. Lansing
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