Organized exchanges have evolved methods for enforcing contracts, which allow the contracts themselves to be traded at low cost. Theorists have modeled futures contracts as tools for risk management, despite an extensive empirical literature that does not support predictions about bias in prices...

The electricity commodity exchange is a place where you can sell and buy, among other things, electricity. Is the sale free from profit-generating activities that have no relation to the production costs incurred ? Here, we suggest a mathematical model that tracks this type of the non-ethical...

This Chapter examines the future of decentralization. While humans who were raised in a centralized world by default turn to centralized solutions for societal problems, decentralized approaches are more effective for global problems. Decentralized networks encourage interoperability through...

This dataset is a complement to the publication Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation. It shows estimates of agricultural support for OECD countries as well as some non-member economies. These summary tables which are designed specifically to monitor, and evaluate the level and...

In this paper, we analyzed the relationship between WTI oil price and speculative investment. In September 2009, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) began publishing a Disaggregated Commitments of Traders report for the sake of increasing the transparency of market participant's...