The Crop of Standing Corn. Are Speculators Really Bad People?

Ralf Korn () and Bernd Luderer ()
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Ralf Korn: TU Kaiserslautern
Bernd Luderer: TU Chemnitz

Chapter 35 in Money and Mathematics, 2021, pp 133-134 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Forward transactions serve both hedging and speculation purposes. The sale of crop of standing corn is one of the historically first commodity futures transactions. In his novel “Buddenbrooks” Thomas Mann impressively describes how such transactions can end.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-34677-5_35

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