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Price Discovery And Futures Spreads For U.S. And Chinese Rice Futures Market, Wei Yang
Price Discovery And Futures Spreads For U.S. And Chinese Rice Futures Market, Wei Yang
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Rice, the primary staple food for more than half the world's population, is the second world's most consumed food grain. In recent years, world rice price has increased and become more volatile especially in the period 2007-2010. Rice price volatility has a huge impact on Asian countries, especially countries in Southeast Asia where rice is a staple food for millions of households. Private market tools to manage price risk and discover price such as futures markets have been analyzed and assessed as possible solutions to coping with rice price volatility issue. Two primary functions of agricultural commodities futures markets are …