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Call for Paper Proposals

The NCCC-134 Multi-state Research Coordinating Committee on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management invites paper proposals for presentation at its upcoming conference, April 14-15, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. The deadline for submissions is November 22, 2024.

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General Topics

We encourage paper proposals on all aspects of commodity price analysis and risk management, especially those related to agricultural commodities and agribusiness risk management. Past presentations have generally focused on the following topics in commodity markets:

  • Supply, demand, and price behavior
  • Innovations in forecasting methods
  • Improved risk management procedures
  • Trading in futures and options markets

Proposed papers should emphasize applied research. Please submit work that will be completed by April 2025.

Proposal Format

Submit a two-page (double spaced) prospectus which contains the following:

  1. Statement of the problem
  2. Data and empirical procedures
  3. Research objectives
  4. Likely results and practical implications

Proposals SHOULD NOT IDENTIFY AUTHORS to protect their anonymity in the review process.  Proposals should be submitted as Adobe Acrobat files (pdf) and the file names should not contain author names.  Here is a sample proposal: (Example Proposal NCCC134 2018.pdf).

Submission Procedure

Authors should submit their proposals through the Microsoft CMT submission system linked above.

  1. If you have not previously submitted through Microsoft CMT, you will need to create a user account by clicking the “Registration” tab in the online system.
  2. After you log in to the system, click “+ Create new submission” in the Author Console.
  3. Enter the title of your proposal.
  4. The section “AUTHORS” should list your e-mail address, Name, Organization, and Country.
  5. To add more authors, please enter the e-mail address of your co-author and click “+ Add.” Fill in the fields to provide the name, organization, and country of your co-author and click “+ Add.”  Repeat this process to add more co-authors.
  6. To upload your proposal, click “Upload from Computer” and select the file.
  7. Click “Submit.”

Submission Decisions

The screening committee will notify all submitting authors of their decision by January.  One author must be registered for the meeting by February 1, 2025.  Presenters must submit their research presentation to their session moderator by April 11, 2025. Completed papers are due on June 1, 2025 for posting in the NCCC-134 paper archive.

Questions about paper proposal submissions can be directed to NCCC-134 Co-chair Andres Trujillo-Barrera.

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