 FUTURES MARKETS AND LOW INCOME COUNTRY RISK MANAGEMENTNo 11093, Graduate Research Master's Degree Plan B Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Abstract: To many people, futures trading is a little understood and rather suspicious activity. The word most often associated with this trading is "speculation", the idea being that most of those involved in futures markets are gamblers in a high stakes game seeking profit at the expense of those outside the game. Any relationship between futures markets and cash markets is generally seen in a negative light - futures trading causing "speculative booms" which distort cash markets and harm many honest traders not directly involved in futures. The idea that futures trading might be a valuable risk management tool for farmers, processors, and other market participants is generally neither understood nor readily accepted. This paper is directed toward professionals, economist and non-economist alike, with an interest in the management of import and export risk by LIC's. Ths paper assumes only a basic knowledge of economics, and little or no familiarity with futures markets. It focuses on futures markets while recognizing that they are but one of a number of available risk management tools. Keywords: Marketing; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:midagr:11093 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Graduate Research Master's Degree Plan B Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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