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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.

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Does Speculation Make Commodity Spot Markets More Volatile?

Publication Date
2022-May-02
Authors
Cao, Yixiao Carl
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

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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Power (in) play the articulation of the othered body and decolonization of historical memory through playwriting and performance

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Juliany Taveras
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

Even within an increasingly digital age, the body on stage continues to operate as an impactful and historically charged mode of communication, on both an individual and societal level. Theatre, I argue, is inherently a <em>medium of memory, </em>and as...

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