This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...

Diese Kurzdarstellung bietet einen Überblick (1.) über die realwirtschaftlichen Ursa-chen der jüngsten Agrarpreiskrisen sowie (2.) über die wissenschaftliche Evidenz zu der Frage, inwiefern die Agrarpreiskrisen durch index-basierte Terminmarktgeschäfte von Finanzinvestoren hervorgerufen...

We investigate wheat price relationships between the import-dependent countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus and the Black Sea wheat exporters to assess wheat market efficiency which is crucial for ensuring availability and access to wheat and for reducing food insecurity. Results of...

Studies investigating the effects of wheat export controls on the domestic market in the exporting country itself are scarce. This paper analyses the domestic market impact of wheat export controls in Russia and Ukraine during the 2007/2008 global food crisis within a spatial price transmission...

We investigate wheat price relationships between the import-dependent countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus and the Black Sea wheat exporters to assess wheat market efficiency which is crucial for ensuring availability and access to wheat and for reducing food insecurity. Results of...

We investigated wheat price relationships between the import-dependent countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus and the Black Sea wheat exporters to assess wheat market efficiency. This is crucial for ensuring availability and access to wheat and for reducing food insecurity. Results...

Diese Kurzdarstellung bietet einen Überblick (1.) über die realwirtschaftlichen Ursachen der jüngsten Agrarpreiskrisen sowie (2.) über die wissenschaftliche Evidenz zu der Frage, inwiefern die Agrarpreiskrisen durch index-basierte Terminmarktgeschäfte von Finanzinvestoren hervorgerufen...

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a survey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...