A future is a parallel programming language construct that enables programmers to specify potentially asynchronous computations. We present and empirically evaluate a novel implementation of futures for Java. Our futures implementation is a JVM extension that couples estimates of future computational granularity with underlying resource availability to enable automatic and adaptive decisions of...

In recent years, carbon emission markets have become liquid and promising markets within the European Union emissions trading scheme (EU ETS). In order to fit and forecast futures price for CO2 emissions allowances, we propose a new N-factor affine term structure model for CO2 futures price and estimate parameters in the new affine model by using the Kalman filter technique. Our empirical resul...

The prices of the option and futures of a stock both reflect the market’s expectation of futures trends of the stock’s price. Their prices normally align with each other within a limited window. When they do not, arbitrage opportunities arise: an investor who spots the misalignment will be able to buy (sell) options on one hand, and sell (buy) futures on the other and make risk-free profits. In...

Historically most cow-calf producers have not used the CME Feeder Cattle futures or options to hedge the sale price of their calves. University Extension specialists have conducted numerous workshops over many years to educate producers on the use of futures and options and yet only a small percentage of producers use these risk management tools. Feuz and Umberger (2001) found that in a survey ...

Developing the Ensemble of Climate Models ................................................................................. 10 Developing the Cornerstone Futures ................................................................................................ 11 Final Set of Futures .....................................................................................................................

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the clarification of three qualifiers ‘‘probable’’, ‘‘possible’’ and ‘‘plausible’’, which are often used interchangeably in foresight and futures studies practice, but which could obtain added value through a careful distinction. In general, it shows the importance of language as the main tool for futures practitioners. Design/methodology/approa...

This paper examined the volatility spillover effects between futures market and spot market in China, using both VAR model and TVP-VAR model. This study found strong bi-directional volatility spillovers between CSI futures and spot markets, and the change of futures’ volatility decreased the change of spot market’s volatility. This results support the hypothesis that the risk management functio...

Significant time-varying risk premia exist in the foreign currency futures basis, and these risk premia are meaningfully correlated with common macroeconomic risk factors from equity and bond markets. The stock index dividend yield and the bond default and term spreads in the U.S. markets help forecast the risk premium component of the foreign currency futures basis. The specific source of risk...

This study examines intraday relationships among the spot index, index futures, and the implied volatility index based on the VAR(1)-asymmetric BEKK-MGARCH model. Analysis of a high-frequency dataset from theKorean financialmarket confirms that there is a strong intraday market linkage between the spot index, KOSPI200 futures, and VKOSPI and that asymmetric volatility behaviour is clearly prese...

~t1JNCE the introduction of futures trading in 3-month Treasury bills in 1976, yields on these futures contracts have been examined for clues as to market expectations of the future course of interest rates. Although there are difficulties in isolating these expectations, the yields on futures contracts do embody information about market expectations of future interest rates.’ However, similar ...