This paper is concerned with the problem of mining commodity information from threaded Chinese customer reviews. Chinese online commodity forums, which are developing rapidly, provide a good environment for customers to share reviews. However, due to noises and navigational limitations, it is hard to have a clear view of a commodity from thousands of related reviews. Further more, due to differ...

One of the particular problems facing agribusiness firms is the relationship between commodity price risk (a source of business risk) and debt repayment ability (a source of financial risk). This study examines the use of commodity-linked loans applied to agricultural credits. A commodity-linked loan is a credit instrument whose payoff is contingent on the value of an underlying commodity or po...

This article links key findings from two major research literatures within contemporary development and globalization studies: global commodity/value chains, and world income inequalities. Forging this missing link exposes what I call the “upgrading paradox” within commodity and value chain analysis. The paradox hinges on the disconnect between the global commodity/value chain literature’s focu...

A competitive economy is studied in which sellers o er alternative direct mechanisms to buyers who have private information about their own private use value for the commodity being traded. In addition the commodity has a common value to all buyers, perhaps represented by the future resale value of the commodity. A competitive equilibrium in mechanisms is described. In every such equilibrium it...

The paper presented an intelligent commodity information search model, which integrates semantic retrieval and multi-attribute decision method. First, semantic similarity is computed by constructing semantic vector-space, in order to realize the semantic consistency between retrieved result and customer’s query. Besides, TOPSIS method is also utilized to construct the comparison mechanism of co...

Using the longest dataset publicly available (The Economist’s index of industrial commodity prices), we analyze the behavior of real commodity prices over the period 1862–1999 and have two main findings. First, while there has been a downward trend in real commodity prices of about 1 percent per year over the last 140 years, little support is found for a break in the long-run trend decline in c...

B2B spot market has grown rapidly and become an effective trading channel for commodity products. Besides long-term contract procurement from conventional suppliers (forward and option), a buyer can procure or sell commodities at any time in B2B spot market to adjust her inventory level. However, spot prices are generally volatile and the market is imperfect in the sense that spot trading may b...

IC technologies are approaching the ultimate limits of silicon in terms of channel width, power supply and speed. By approaching these limits, circuits are becoming increasingly sensitive to noise. The reduction of VDD voltage and geometry shrinking implies the reduction of node capacitance. This will increase the ICs sensitivity to alpha particles and atmospheric neutrons, creating unacceptabl...