Speculation on agricultural commodities: A brief overview

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a survey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion of political measures that are appropriate for improving global food security. The arguments are supported by numerous graphs.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Pies, Ingo ; Prehn, Sören ; Glauben, Thomas ; Will, Matthias Georg
Publisher:	Halle (Saale) : Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik
Subject:	speculation \| futures market \| hunger \| food security \| index funds \| Agrarspekulation \| Terminmarkt \| Hunger \| Nahrungssicherheit \| Index-fonds

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Series:	Diskussionspapier ; 2013-14
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-3-86829-605-1
Other identifiers:	755435184 [GVK] hdl:10419/170400 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:mlucee:201314 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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