Japanese Wholesale Market for Agricultural Products: Its Present Condition and Perspective

Destination of the Solid Waste Generated at the Agricultural Products Wholesale Market in Brazil

The Brazilian Agricultural Products Wholesale Market fits well as example of residues generating system, reaching 750 metric tons per month of total residues, from which 600 metric tons are organic material and 150 metric tons are recyclable materials. Organic material is basically composed of fruit, vegetables and flowers leftovers from the products commercialization. The recyclable compounds ...

DEMAND ESTIMATES FOR AGRICULTURAL, MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE PRODUCTS

Oligopolistic Competition in the Japanese Wholesale Electricity Market: A Linear Complementarity Approach

Using a linear complementarity approach, we simulate the Japanese wholesale electricity market as a transmission-constrained Cournot market. Following Hobbs (2001), our model adopts the Cournot assumption in the energy market and the Bertrand assumption in the transmission market. The Bertrand assumption means that generators consider transmission charges as being exogenous, which can be interp...

Competitive Electricity Market Design: a Wholesale Primer

A short-term electricity market coordinated by a system operator provides a foundation for a competitive electricity market. Combined with long-term contracts for generation and transmission congestion, the spot-market and competitive market pricing can support open access to the transmission grid. INTRODUCTION Electricity market restructuring emphasizes the potential for competition in generat...

Market Efficiency and Volatility Spillovers in Futures and Spot Commodity Market: The Agricultural Sector Perspective

Future contracts in commodity market with limited maturities are primarily used for hedging commodity price-fluctuation risks or for taking advantage of price movements, rather than for the buying or selling of the actual cash commodity. This paper is an effort to analyze the market efficiency of the Indian commodity market and volatility spillover effects between the spot and future market wit...