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The Impact of Food Prices on Conflict Revisited
Winne, Jasmien De - 2019
prices are exogenous shocks for individual countries or local areas. By isolating strictly exogenous shifts in global food …. Specifically, we show that increases in food prices that are caused by harvest shocks outside Africa raise conflict significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861404
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The Interplay between Oil and Food Commodity Prices : Has it Changed Over Time?
Peersman, Gert - 2019
Using time-varying BVARs, we find that oil price increases caused by oil supply shocks did not affect food commodity …, in contrast to the preceding era. Remarkably, we also document greater spillover effects of both supply shocks on metals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861447
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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community
Ihle, Rico; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan; Zorya, Sergiy - 2011
This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274732
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What if the UK had joined the euro in 1999? : An empirical evaluation using a Global VAR
Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; Smith, Ron P. - 2005
variety of assumptions about when and how the UK entered and the observed global shocks and compares them with the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276168
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Agricultural Price Shocks and Business Cycles - A Global Warning for Advanced Economies
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2018
unfavorable harvest shocks in other regions of the world significantly curtail domestic economic activity. The effects are much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872094
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Spatial Differentiation and Market Power in Input Procurement: Evidence from a Structural Model of the Corn Market
Jung, Jinho; Sesmero, Juan; Siebert, Ralph - 2020
We estimate the cost of transporting corn and the resulting degree of spatial differentiation among downstream firms that buy corn from upstream farmers and examine whether such differentiation softens competition enabling buyers to exert market power (defined as the ability to pay a price for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179887
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Modeling Fluctuations in the Global Demand for Commodities
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017
transmission of commodity price shocks to commodity-importing and exporting economies, and for commodity price forecasting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777614
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The Interplay between Oil and Food Commodity Prices: Has It Changed over Time?
Peersman, Gert; Rüth, Sebastian; Van der Veken, Wouter - 2019
Using time-varying BVARs, we find that oil price increases caused by oil supply shocks did not affect food commodity … contrast to the preceding era. Remarkably, we also document greater spillover effects of both supply shocks on metals and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141027
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The Impact of Food Prices on Conflict Revisited
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2019
prices are exogenous shocks for individual countries or local areas. By isolating strictly exogenous shifts in global food …. Specifically, we show that increases in food prices that are caused by harvest shocks outside Africa raise conflict significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141065
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Measuring the Immeasurable: The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple indicators multiple causes model (MIMIC) was developed for the estimation of levels of informal economy in 15 “Old” European Union Member States’ agricultural sectors for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582000