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The Political Economy of Food and Finance
The financialization, globalization and industrialization of our food systems make it increasingly difficult to access quality fresh food. In fact, the industrialized global food system is creating products that are less food-like, engendering growing questions about the health and safety of our food supply. In addition, the bio-engineering of food commodities is another factor influencing the growth of industrial farming for an increasingly homogenized, globalized market. This book describes the financialization process in commodity futures markets which transformed commodities into an asset class. Incorporated into the portfolio decisions of investors, commodity prices now behave like all ...
Risk Transfer
Based on an enormously popular "derivative instruments and applications" course taught by risk expert Christopher Culp at the University of Chicago, Risk Transfer will prepare both current practitioners and students alike for many of the issues and problems they will face in derivative markets. Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, this book is an essential resource for those who want a comprehensive education and working knowledge of this major field in finance, as well as professionals studying to pass the GARP FRM exam. Christopher L. Culp, PhD (Chicago, IL), is a Principal at CP Risk Management LLC and is also Adjunct Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Corporate Aftershock (0-471-43002-1) and The ART of Risk Management (0-471-12495-8).
The Risk Management Process
Integrates essential risk management practices with practical corporate business strategies Focusing on educating readers on how to integrate risk management with corporate business strategy-not just on hedging practices-The Risk Management Process is the first financial risk management book that combines a detailed, big picture discussion of firm-wide risk management with a comprehensive discussion of derivatives-based hedging strategies and tactics. An essential component of any corporate business strategy today, risk management has become a mainstream business process at the highest level of the world's largest financial institutions, corporations, and investment management groups. Addressing the need for a well-balanced book on the subject, respected leader and teacher on the subject Christopher Culp has produced a well-balanced, comprehensive reference text for a broad audience of financial institutions and agents, nonfinancial corporations, and institutional investors.
Microstructure of World Trading Markets
This volume addresses various aspects of the microstructure of world trading markets and provides scientific evidence on the functioning of specific foreign markets. The study of market microstructure has previously focused on the U.S. markets, but with the rapid expansion in foreign markets there is a real need to understand the nature and functioning of foreign trading markets.
The Economics of Agriculture, Volume 2
Contents of Volume 2, Papers in Honor of D. Gale Johnson -- 1. Allocation of Agricultural Income (1948) -- 2. Resource Allocation under Share Contracts (1950) -- 3. Functioning of the Labor Market (1951) -- 4. Comparability of Labor Capacities of Farm and Nonfarm Labor (1953) -- 5. The Nature of the Supply Function for Agricultural Products (1950) -- 6. Contribution of Price Policy to the Income and Resource Problems in Agriculture (1944) -- 7. Government and Agriculture: Is Agriculture a Special Case? (1958) -- 8. Government and Agricultural Adjustment (1973) -- 9. Eye-Witness Appraisal of Soviet Farming, 1955 (1956) -- 10. Agriculture in the Centrally Planned Economies (1982) -- 11. Economic Reforms in the People's Republic of China (1988) -- 12. Why Is It So Difficult to Replace a Failed Economic System: The Former USSR (1993) -- 13. Agriculture and Foreign Economic Policy (1964) -- 14. World Agriculture, Commodity Policy, and Price Variability (1975).
Restructuring Regulation and Financial Institutions
Policy makers around the globe will find that Restructuring Regulation and Financial Institutions offers a cogent assessment of the contemporary regulatory environment in the U.S. financial markets, and a blueprint for action in evolving global financial markets. Financial markets are among the most highly-regulated markets in the world. Nevertheless, financial crises still occur, witness the U.S. savings-and-loan fiasco of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the Mexican and East Asian Financial implosions of 1994 and 1997. What role does regulation play in stabilizing-or-destabilizing financial markets? Restructuring Regulation and Financial Institutions answers this question with incisive ...
Automating the Price Discovery Process
Automated trade execution systems are examined with respect to the degree to which they automate the price discovery process. Seven levels of automation of price discovery are identified, and 47 systems are classified according to these criteria. Systems operating at various levels of automation are compared with respect to age, geographical location, and type of securities traded. Information provided to market participants, and asymmetries of information between traders with direct access to the automated market and outside investors also are examined. It is found, for example, that the degree of asymmetric information increases with the level of automation of price discovery. The potential for trading abuses related to prearranged trading, noncompetitive execution, and trading ahead of customers is analyzed for each level of automation. Certain levels of automation widen the opportunities for trading abuses in some respects, but may narrow them in others.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.
