Format:
1 online resource (131 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415835206
,
9781135047672
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals Series
Content:
First published in 1972, this book provides an important critical review on the theory of futures trading. B. A. Goss looks at the work and ideas of other economists and discusses the evolution of the concept of hedging in the context of buying forward into the markets as well as theories of market and individual equilibrium
Note:
Cover -- The Theory of Futures Trading -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- General editor's introduction -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Nature of futures trading -- Pre-conditions for futures trading -- Categories of transaction -- 1 The beginnings: Keynes, Hicks and Kaldor -- Keynes -- Hicks -- Kaldor -- 2 The concept of hedging -- The 'old' concept of hedging -- The later concept of hedging -- 3 Theories of market equilibrium: Peston and Yamey -- 4 Theories of market equilibrium: Brennan and Telser -- 5 Theories of individual equilibrium: Jerome L. Stein -- Stein's market theory -- 6 Theories of individual equilibrium: Leland L. Johnson -- 7 Speculation in commodity futures: a method of analysis -- Determination of individual equilibrium -- Individual demand and supply functions -- Market equilibrium with homogeneous expectations -- Market equilibrium with heterogeneous expectations -- Expectations formed in terms of price spread only -- Simultaneous determination of spot and futures prices -- Questions -- Further reading
Additional Edition:
Print version Goss, Barry The Theory of Futures Trading (Routledge Revivals) Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415835206
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
FULL
((OIS Credentials Required))
Bookmarklink
