Results 21 to 30 of about 658,968 (309)
Speculation in Standard Auctions with Resale [PDF]
, 2005 In standard auctions with symmetric, independent private value bidders resale creates a role for a speculator—a bidder who is commonly known to have no use value for the good on sale.
Garratt, Rod, Tröger, Thomas
core +3 more sources
Speculating on Speculative Execution [PDF]
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2019 Threat actors continue to design exploits that specifically target physical weaknesses in processor hardware rather than more traditional software vulnerabilities. The now infamous attacks, Spector and Meltdown, ushered in a new era of hardware-based security vulnerabilities that have caused some experts to question whether the potential cybersecurity ...
openaire +1 more source
Macroeconomic Conditions, Speculation, and Commodity Futures Returns
International Journal of Financial StudiesThis paper examines the dynamic relationships between speculative activities, commodity returns, and macroeconomic conditions across five sectors compassing 29 commodities.
Ramesh Adhikari, Kyle J. Putnam
doaj +1 more source
Money as Medium, Speculation and Scrypt
Lateral, 2014 Although they intervened on a culture of financialization in two very different ways, both Speculation and scrypt explore the intersection of money with the history of media, imperialism, colonialism, and computation. If capitalism is a kind of computer,
Stephanie Boluk
doaj +1 more source
What Motivates Speculators to Speculate? [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 Land speculation that occurs on the urban border can be very problematic to the healthy development of cities—critical to economic growth. Speculative land investors, concerned with profits from trading in landed property, can especially affect developing countries where regulation is often poorly controlled and overly bureaucratic.
Bedane S. Gemeda +4 more
openaire +3 more sources
Financialization in the food system
Canadian Food Studies, 2015 There is growing concern about financialization in the food sector, which refers to the increasingly important role played by financial actors, markets, and motives in decisions along agrifood supply chains. Financial actors have long been intertwined in
Jennifer Clapp +2 more
doaj +1 more source
SEEU Review, 2017 Globalization of financial markets led to the enormous growth of volume and diversification of financial transactions. Financial derivatives were the basic elements of this growth.
Stankovska Aleksandra
doaj +1 more source
Slow science for fast archaeology
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2019 This contribution contends that, with the recent genetic revolution, archaeology has reached a new scientism, a development that could lead to fewer opportunities in the epistemology of archaeology to think difference.
Marko M. Marila
doaj +1 more source
Speculation, history, speculative history [PDF]
Accounting History Review, 2016 Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.1Speculations, conjectures, suppositions, opinions – we encounter them all in history and everyday life.
openaire +1 more source
“Professional trading”, exchange rate risk and the growth of international banking: a note
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 The movement from fixed to floating exchange rates led to predictions that foreign exchange markets might become more volatile. In particular, the issue whether speculation in the market was stabilising or destabilising was widely debated.
P. CALLIER
doaj +1 more source