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Fall 2022
In the first essay, I explore whether excess demand in commodity futures markets affects the spot price of oil. I use a sign restricted vector autoregressive oil market model that explicitly includes futures markets. This model allows for the detection of futures demand effects which feedback...
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Unmasking Global Education Industries and Their Capital Accumulation Strategies: On Materiality and Discourse
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The notion of education as being part of the “commons,” as a societal or public good, is slowly giving way to pressures of marketization, privatization, and commodification—and thus, re-imagined, reconfigured, and re-appropriated as an object of trade, increasingly for sale, based on individual...