An economic derivative is a financial contract where payouts depend on future economic indicators. It helps manage risk and speculate on economic forecasts.

This paper proposes a `derivative' firm model that emphasizes the decisions to invest in productive assets and to contract with firm managers. Contemporary examples of derivative firms include joint ...

A Senate panel on Wednesday plans to take up a measure imposing regulations on over-the-counter derivatives — the privately traded financial contracts that businesses use to hedge their bets on the ...

Economic forecasters often look to the performance of futures markets to help predict such economic developments as movements in the price of oil and other commodities. In addition, relatively new ...

Asia Pacific accounted for the largest share of derivatives trading of any region during October 2025 at 62% of all futures ...

Another attempt to spread risk around has bit the dust. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the International Securities Exchange have decided to discontinue economic derivatives auctions. The market ...

Vultures, rats and maggots are often the focus of disgust, less because of anything for which they can be blamed, and more because of the conditions with which they are associated. Death, disease and ...

SHOWING true concern for their customers, if not for the jobless, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs earlier this month began offering investors the chance to profit by guessing, via call options, the ...

The sharp jump in derivative trading by Indian retail investors is likely driven by a "gambling instinct", a finance ministry report said on Monday, cautioning that any sharp correction in the stock ...

We build a general equilibrium model where growth is driven by two invention types: fundamental ideas that cause creative destruction, and derivative ideas that enhance the value of existing ...