This study compares liquidity costs in options and futures markets. Considerable research has estimated liquidity costs of futures trading, but there is little comparable research about futures options markets. The study uses transaction prices for stock futures and options contracts traded at...

The purpose of this study was to determine if a preference for round prices exists in the wheat market and how wheat sales react to price movements around whole-dollar amounts. The results show round prices are slightly more prevalent than non round prices, and transactions increase when price...

Some extension economists and others recommend profit margin hedging as a way to choose the timing of crop sales. However, the theory behind this strategy recommendation is not well developed. This article determines the producer's utility function and price processes where profit margin hedging...

Much agricultural economics research has been dedicated to determining the best time for producers to sell their commodities. Unlike this past research, we look at how producers actually sell commodities. The extent to which producers display an active or mechanical marketing style is measured...

The purpose of this study was to determine if a preference for round prices exists in the wheat market and how wheat sales react to price movements around whole‐dollar amounts. The results show round prices are slightly more prevalent than non round prices, and transactions increase when price...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to derive a new option pricing model for options on futures calendar spreads. Calendar spread option volume has been low and a more precise model to price them could lead to lower bid-ask spreads as well as more accurate marking to market of open positions....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to estimate crop yield densities considering time trends in the first three moments and spatially varying coefficients. Design/methodology/approach: Yield density parameters are assumed to be spatially correlated, through a Gaussian spatial process. This...