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Comment: “An Autoregressive Forecast of the World Sugar Future Option Market”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Extract

I was interested to read Meyer and Kim [5], where I learned a little about sugar futures, but regret to say that I found the attempted Box-Jenkins analysis singularly lacking in expertise. It is my intention, here, to discuss a few of its most obvious shortcomings. My list will not be exhaustive, but will include just five points.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1977

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