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been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and …
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requirement for production of the quota of tobacco output allocated to Malawi. However, as a result of population growth food … demands exceeded the carrying capacity of household land whose quality also diminished resulting in steep decline in food … productivity. The author also argues that government policy of suppressing producer prices combined with a policy of preventing …
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In this study we have attempted, in collaboration with an agrifood company, to compare and contrast the responses of consumers and professionals to the same set of situations raising ethical questions, in order to highlight the differences and the similarities of viewpoint between these two...
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importance of the market movements. These indices are based on the price volatility and are computed by integrating mapped asset …
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financial instruments in the portfolio and on the volatility of those returns.This task is relatively simple if the correlations … and volatilities do not change over time.But in reality both volatility and stock market indexes’ correlations do change …
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applications in power industries. This model with stochastic volatility of the forward price is built using the ideas and equations … of stochastic differential geometry in order to close the system of equations for the forward price and its volatility …. Stationary distributions for the forward price volatility are found analytically as well as the forward price curves in the one …
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affected by ‘vo- latility contagion’ coming from emerging markets. I find also some partial support for the ‘volatility …
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exemplifies how heterogeneity concerning the volatility of two stochastic processes may lead to chaotic motion; the second is a …
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This paper examines the determinants of the volatility in growth rates, seeking to expand on a very limited literature … which has focused almost exclusively on financial determinants of volatility. An analysis of 41 variables and their effects … on growth volatility yields some surprising results: the relationship between financial sophistication and volatility is …
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This paper examines the forecasting performance of GARCH’s models used with agricultural commodities data. We compare different possible sources of forecasting improvement, using various statistical distributions and models. We have chosen to confine our analysis on four indices which are the...
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