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Premiums/Discounts and Predictive Ability of the Shrimp Futures Market

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Josué Martínez-Garmendia  and
James L. Anderson
Josué Martínez-Garmendia
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island
James L. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island
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Abstract

Seafood futures contracts are a novelty in the derivative markets, having shrimp as their only exponent. Unfortunately, shrimp futures contracts have suffered a disappointing start. The analyses focus on testing whether premiums/discounts for non-par deliverable shrimp size categories can eliminate cash price differentials, and whether the shrimp futures market can predict cash prices without bias. Results indicate ineffective premiums/discounts and predictive bias. These results and the momentous changes taking place in the seafood industry are contrasted to discuss the viability of seafood futures contracts.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , October 2001 , pp. 160 - 167
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Copyright © 2001 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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