High and volatile food prices pose a significant policy challenge around the world, and an understanding of the … dynamics of food price inflation and volatility is essential in designing appropriate policy responses. Using the panel data … volatilities as well as the effects of various internal and external factors on domestic food price inflation and volatility. The …

food price volatility since the L'Aquila Initiative in 2009. It shows that some progress was achieved with respect to … volatility. Regarding financial markets the respective initiatives of the US and the EU prove the willingness of the executive to …

, volatility, and spikes. While price trends are important in the long term, volatility and spikes are more important in the short … correlations among themselves. A rising medium-term price trend has triggered extreme short-term price spikes and increased … volatility. An assessment of the costs of price volatility has shown that the existing literature follows a conventional marginal …

pesticides are generally more stringent than under autarky. As a result, trade increases the price volatility of crops produced …

To capture the volatility in the global food commodity prices, we employed two competing models, the thin tailed the … simplicity may lead to unreliable results of the conditional volatility estimates. The paper also shows that the volatility of … food commodity prices characterized with the intermediate and short memory behavior, implying that the volatility of food …