Purpose: The purpose of the study was to further our understanding of in-restaurant family behaviors using an ethnographic study of families with children (at least one child from 2 to 12 years old) dining in fast food restaurants. Design/methodology/approach: This study includes an...

With rapid technological change has come a blurring of boundaries between personal and workplace space. Employers are challenged to develop guidelines and policies to direct the appropriate use of technology to maintain a civil workplace. Because of the lack of shared understanding, or even...

The hedging problem is examined where futures prices obey the cost‐of‐carry model. The resultant hedging model explicitly incorporates maturity effects in the futures basis. Formulas for the optimal static and dynamic hedges are derived. Although these formulas are developed for the case of...