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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of volatility between the corn, wheat, and soybean markets in the United States. Volatility interactions across markets, if they exist, may lower the effectiveness of diversification strategies to mitigate price risks and should be...
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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the degree of co-movement among the nominal price returns of 11 major energy, agricultural, and food commodities using monthly data between 1970 and 2013. The authors study the extent and the time evolution of unconditional and conditional...
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-protected importables. Moreover, major external shocks to the economy (including increases in world prices of fuel in 2007 and early 2008 … the effects of changes in world prices and to assess dynamic effects of shocks and policies on growth and income …
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This research paper is aimed at understanding why border trade policies are today complemented with behind-the-border policies like output subsidies, R&D subsidies, and public R&D investments. This is a new type of protectionism that becomes prominent since the 2006-2008 economic crisis. In this...
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markets, while two of the three rural markets are border markets. The study uses monthly maize retail prices for the period …
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level, technology (higher yield) was the main source of crop income growth during 1980s, while rising prices and …
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"This paper is a description and an analysis of trade liberalization under CAFTA. It shows that in the short run the impact of the agreement is likely to be small... Since the U.S. already grants tariff-free access under the CBI, trade liberalization in the CAFTA treaty appears to be asymmetric,...
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, especially the collapse of world coffee prices in the late 1990s, are eroding farmer incomes and export revenues and threaten the …, different scenarios for each of these strategies are evaluated to show their potential impacts on Ugandan export prices, export …, would be significantly eroded by the negative effects on export prices, especially if other countries followed suit and …
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"The increasing demand for water and limited degree of cost recovery for irrigation water delivery are important challenges for policymakers in Indonesia. To meet the increasing demand for water, it is important to reduce water use in irrigated paddy cultivation, long the dominant consumptive...
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