Business and Finance

Harri Toivonen, M.Sc. (Econ), will defend his PhD dissertation at the Helsinki School of Economics (HSE) on Friday, December 2, 2005. The dissertation is entitled “Modeling, Valuation and Risk Management of Commodity Derivatives” and is in the field of Finance. The public defense will start at 12:00 in the auditorium of the Chydenia building (address Runeberginkatu 22-24). The opponent is Professor Petri Sahlström (Tampere University of Technology) and the custos is Professor Hannu Seristö (HS

A specially developed oil mixture reduced airborne levels of particulate matter at a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers evaluated an oil spray developed to reduce the airborne health hazards at industrial feeding facilities. Chronic respiratory illnesses are a serious concern for CAFO workers, as well as for the surrounding communities and animals themselves. The study, published in

U.S. participation in benchmark products increasing/ Optimal liquidity with one tick bid/ask spreads/ USD margin call service launched successfully Extended U.S. afternoon trading on the international derivatives exchange Eurex has seen a successful start since its introduction on November 21, the exchange announced on Tuesday. An average of approximately 59,000 contracts per day was traded during the extended trading hours in the first week. Eurex extended the trading day for its

The share of the wholesale and retail trade in the consumer price of food has increased rapidly in Finland over the past five years. At the same time, a declining share of the consumer food euro is allocated to farmers, according to marketing margin calculations from MTT Agrifood Research Finland.

Marketing margin calculations by MTT indicate the share of the retail price going to each sector along the supply chain: farmer, processing and trade (=marketing margin) as well as

euro 29 Million Invested in Leading Producer in European Commercial Sushi Market

European Capital, S.A. SICAR announced today it has invested approximately euro 29 million in the One Stop Buyout of Marco Polo Foods, the leading producer in the European commercial sushi market. European Capital’s investment takes the form of senior term debt, senior subordinated debt, redeemable bonds and common equity. Marco Polo management is investing in redeemable bonds and common equity.

Christodoulos Floudas and his students Stacy Janak and Martin Taylor have invented a mathematical formula that may transform the way that day-to-day work assignments are made across government and industry.

They didn’t set out to accomplish such a broad goal. Initially they were simply attempting to solve a seemingly obscure problem: figuring out the best way for the National Science Foundation to efficiently and fairly assign funding proposals for review to its many rev