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Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Recent economic growth in China and other Asian countries has led to increased commodity demand which has caused price rises and accompanying price fluctuations not only for crude oil but also for the many other raw materials. Such trends mean that world commodity markets are once again under intense scrutiny. This book provides new insights into the modeling and forecasting of primary commodity prices by featuring comprehensive applications of the most recent methods of statistical time series analysis. The latter utilize econometric methods concerned with structural breaks unobserved components chaotic discovery long memory heteroskedasticity wavelet estimation and fractional integration. Relevant tests employed include neural networks correlation dimensions Lyapunov exponents fractional integration and rescaled range. The price forecasting involves structural time series trend plus cycle and cyclical trend models. Practical applications focus on the price behaviour of more than twenty international commodity markets. | Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

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Commodity Trade and Finance

What affects the supply of oil? How important is the weather in determining grain prices? Why has the price of copper skyrocketed? This unique book analyses the economics of key commodity groups including energy agriculture and metals. It examines the supply/demand fundamentals of several major and minor commodities physical characteristics production and consumption patterns trade flows and pricing mechanisms. It also explains the main tools used to hedge price risk such as futures options and swaps. This second edition has been fully revised and restructured and contains four new chapters including oil refining electricity and price risk management for energy metals and agricultural commoditiesThis book is an indispensable reference text for students academics and those working in the commodity business. | Commodity Trade and Finance

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Financial Modelling in Commodity Markets

Financial Modelling in Commodity Markets provides a basic and self-contained introduction to the ideas underpinning financial modelling of products in commodity markets. The book offers a concise and operational vision of the main models used to represent assess and simulate real assets and financial positions related to the commodity markets. It discusses statistical and mathematical tools important for estimating implementing and calibrating quantitative models used for pricing and trading commodity-linked products and for managing basic and complex portfolio risks. Key features: Provides a step-by-step guide to the construction of pricing models and for the applications of such models for the analysis of real data Written for scholars from a wide range of scientific fields including economics and finance mathematics engineering and statistics as well as for practitioners Illustrates some important pricing models using real data sets that will be commonly used in financial markets

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Commodity Derivatives A Guide for Future Practitioners

Commodity Derivatives: A Guide for Future Practitioners describes the origins and uses of these important markets. Commodities are often used as inputs in the production of other products and commodity prices are notoriously volatile. Derivatives include forwards futures options and swaps; all are types of contracts that allow buyers and sellers to establish the price at one time and exchange the commodity at another. These contracts can be used to establish a price now for a purchase or sale that will occur later or establish a price later for a purchase or sale now. This book provides detailed examples for using derivatives to manage prices by hedging using futures options and swaps. It also presents strategies for using derivatives to speculate on price levels relationships volatility and the passage of time. Finally because the relationship between a commodity price and a derivative price is not constant this book examines the impact of basis behaviour on hedging results and shows how the basis can be bought and sold like a commodity. The material in this book is based on the author’s 30-year career in commodity derivatives and is essential reading for students planning careers as commodity merchandisers traders and related industry positions. Not only does it provide them with the necessary theoretical background it also covers the practical applications that employers expect new hires to understand. Examples are coordinated across chapters using consistent prices and formats and industry terminology is used so students can become familiar with standard terms and concepts. This book is organized into 18 chapters corresponding to approximately one chapter per week for courses on the semester system. | Commodity Derivatives A Guide for Future Practitioners

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Persian Carpets The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object as a commodity and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object the book brings issues of labor into conversation with the politics of aesthetics. It focuses on the carpet as a commodity which crosses the boundaries of private and public religious and secular culture and economy modern and traditional home and diaspora and art and commodity to tell the story of transnational interconnectivity. Bringing transnational feminist cultural studies ethnography and network studies within the same frame of reference this book sheds light on Orientalia as civilizational objects that emerged as commodities in the encounter between the West and the many directly or indirectly colonized Middle Eastern and West Asian cultures focusing on the specific example of Persian carpets as some of the most extensively valued and traded objects since colonial modernity. | Persian Carpets The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

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