Friday, October 20, 2006

What do you believe?

From an email "survey" received today:


Do you believe in the existence of a risk premium (in the sense of Keynes Normal Backwardation Theory) in the commodity futures markets?

Is s the forward price equal to the expected future spot price? An interesting question, perhaps. Although, it seems pretty easy to test with a bit of data. I guess just asking people about what they believe the facts to be is easier.

But what do I believe... That is a question.
maybe? Crash Davis, Bull Durham (1998)? nah? Still working on it

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Today's ironic email subject




Date: Oct 16, 2006 9:49 PM
Subject: [Scelist] Corrected CfP: Measurement Error: Econometrics and Practice

Ahhh, a corrected call for papers for a conference on Errors...