Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Does Speculation Make Commodity Spot Markets More Volatile?

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2022-May-02
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This paper examines how increased speculator participation in the commodity
futures market affects spot price volatility. Consistent with results from the
majority of existing literature on this subject, I find no evidence that speculators
destabilize the commodity spot market. More...

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some theses on corn: gente de maíz, mutual domestication, nonhuman relationality

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2023-April-21
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This project is an attempt to play with "theses" as a form of research, integrating academic essay, creative writing, image collecting, making and intervening, and materiality. I examine the intersecting racial, social, and ecological implications of the term gente de...

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