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Supply And Demand Risks In Laboratory Forward And Spot Markets: Implications For Agriculture

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  • Menkhaus, Dale J.
  • Bastian, Christopher T.
  • Phillips, Owen R.
  • O'Neill, Patrick D.

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Laboratory experimental methods are used to investigate the impacts of supply and/or demand risks on prices, quantities traded, and earnings within forward and spot market institutions. Random demand and/or supply shifts can be as much as 25 percent of the expected equilibrium outcome. Nevertheless, results suggest that the spot or forward trading institution itself has a greater influence on market outcomes than the presence of risk within the trading institutions. Sellers tend to have relatively higher earnings in a spot market than buyers, regardless of the risk. Total surplus, however, generally is greater in a forward market.

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  • Menkhaus, Dale J. & Bastian, Christopher T. & Phillips, Owen R. & O'Neill, Patrick D., 2000. "Supply And Demand Risks In Laboratory Forward And Spot Markets: Implications For Agriculture," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 32(1), pages 1-15, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:joaaec:15388
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.15388
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