transmission relationships between agricultural futures and the agriculture index in China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper … futures and the agriculture index exhibit different correlations. During the initial stages of economic upturns and downturns … upturns and downturns, such additions do not really help to diversify risk. Soybean meal futures and the agriculture index are …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a new approach to market analysis, and test how the China-US soybean … counter-intuitively worsened after China's elimination of quota in 1999, and accession to WTO in 2001. One other interesting … impacts and effectiveness of government policies on China's international soybean markets, the remaining bottlenecks, and the …