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To sell their surpluses of maize, the main staple in Benin, farmers may choose among three modes of transaction: they may sell under a contract with itinerant traders, or they may sell without a contract at the farmgate or on distant markets. It has been postulated that farmers may choose a...
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trade liberalization. …
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The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its causes has brought renewed interest in futures markets. In this paper, the hedging effectiveness of European and US wheat futures markets were studied to test whether they were affected by the high...
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The international diversification of assets by investing in agricultural commodities has manifested increasingly in recent years, as demonstrated by the growth in investment in commodities which have augmented rapidly in recent years, the prospect is that they will increase further. The common...
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are based on observed volatility. To measure the volatility, the annual time-series of the CoCo database were analysed … negative impacts of price volatility on farm incomes. This study contributes to this discussion by estimating a share of 17 … systematic sensitivity analysis in order to explore the impact of input cost volatility fully on the model outcomes. …
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with new challenges. This paper focuses on the impacts of increased price volatility on the grain market. Furthermore, it … describes and evaluates government interventions attempting to reduce this volatility. At the same time, it describes and … assesses private management methods of dealing with price volatility. In this article, we provide an opportunity to understand …
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In the years to come, German wheat, corn and aggregated cereal yields can be expected to show growing deviations from a linearly increasing trend. This results from the Bayesian Updating approach I apply to agricultural yield data. The updating procedure is carried out on a set of hypotheses on...
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of volatility in the period from July 2004 to April 2011 and to examine how sensitive the results can be to spatial … found considerable differences when comparing various price volatility measures calculated for the analyzed countries …
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instruments to manage food price volatility. Many developing countries recently pursued price regulation policies, but the … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … be key factor influencing the degree of price volatility. Applied to trade policies, this consistency is defined by the …
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Volatility of farm income represents a major challenge for farm management and the design of public policies. This … reduce crop income volatility in France and in Italy. We use an original dataset of 9,555 farms for the period 2003 …-2007 drawn up from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) and three different econometric models to explain the volatility of …
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