Contract Doesn't Live Here any More?

Reliability at Any Cost - Risk Management through Contract Technology

Trading of electricity has exploded worldwide and price is displacing system planners as the means to ensure supply matches demand. Who will best ensure reliable supply? The quality of supply will be driven by the quality of the supply contract, not by whether the supplier owns physical assets. There is no economic way to target delivery on the integrated electric grid. When faced with a supply...

Is ostension any more than attention?

According to natural pedagogy theory, infants are sensitive to particular ostensive cues that communicate to them that they are being addressed and that they can expect to learn referential information. We demonstrate that 6-month-old infants follow others' gaze direction in situations that are highly attention-grabbing. This occurs irrespective of whether these situations include communicative...

When size is not important any more

Wireless phone companies, especially with number portability, sell a product that is less and less different, that is to say, a commodity. That is the reason scale economies play a very important role in this market. Given that it is not possible to make a large margin on the service that they offer, companies must focus their strategies on saving costs. Moreover, the more clients a company has...

Don't get around much any more.

"Did Producer Hedging Opportunities in the Live Hog Contract Decline?"

The paper assesses the usefulness of selective hedging strategies when combined with forecast techniques in the live hog contract. The use of routine futures and options hedging is not attractive relative to a cash-only strategy. However, forecasting and hedging can contribute to price risk management improvement for risk-averse producers. Consistent with previous research, the results indicate...