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Examining the determinants of food prices in developing Asia
Huh, Hyeon-seung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2013
How the price of food is determined has become a critical issue, given the drastic surges in prices in recent years and the prevailing expectation of further increases. Along this line, this paper examines the sources of food price fluctuations in 11 developing Asian countries. The working model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192320
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Examining the Determinants of Food Prices in Developing Asia
Huh, Hyeon‐Seung - 2013
How the price of food is determined has become a critical issue, given the drastic surges in prices in recent years and the prevailing expectation of further increases. Along this line, this paper examines the sources of food price fluctuations in 11 developing Asian countries. The working model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076402
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The cost of high food prices in West Africa
Allen, Thomas - 2017
West African households were particularly affected by the food price crisis of 2007-08. As these households depend on markets for two-thirds of their food supplies, prices have become a key determinant of access to food. However, food prices are 30-40% higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730176
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Factors explaining crop price developments : time-series evidence for developing and developed countries
Raabe, Katharina - 2010
The global hunger indices of 2008 and 2009 (Grebmer et al. 2008, 2009) point to persistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity and a worsening of the situation due to rising crop prices. At the same time, there is a lack of empirical knowledge on the demand- and supply-side determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003987277
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Oil price effects on land use competition : an empirical analysis
Diermeier, Matthias; Schmidt, Torsten - 2012
The increasing use of food commodities for biofuel production has substantial impact on prices and quantities of these and other food commodities. It is therefore likely that this trend also intensifies the competition for arable land. However, evidence for this hypothesis is generated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580156
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Effects of Monetary Policy on Food Inequality in India
De, Kuhelika - 2019
. Specifically, we examine the impact of monetary policy shocks on the relative food prices and the distribution of food consumption … policy shocks on relative food prices and the distribution of food consumption in rural and urban India using a dynamic … common factor model (Bernanke, Boivin, and Eliasz, 2005 and Stock and Watson, 2011), and identify monetary policy shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862929
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Exploring the pattern of price interdependence in rice market in Indonesia in the presence of quality differential
Utami, Anisa Dwi; Harianto, Harianto; Krisnamurthi, Bayu - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17
Being the main food commodity, the dynamics of rice prices is one of the most important issues for Indonesian economy. The prices at the retail level and at the farm level are influenced not only by the demand and supply in each of these markets but also by price behavior at the wholesale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500663
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State-space cointegration modeling for the analysis of exogenous shocks to prices in Israeli-Palestinian food trade
Ihle, Rico; Götz, Linde Johanna; Rubin, Ofir D. - 2011
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict constitutes a prominent example of a long-lasting political conflict which has major consequences for the livelihoods of the people on both sides. The agricultural sectors of the Palestinian and Israeli economies are tightly connected. However, various security...
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Assessing seasonal asymmetric price transmission in Ghanaian tomato markets with the Johansen estimation method
Ihle, Rico; Amikuzuno, Joseph - 2010
We assess market integration and price transmission of perishable agricultural produce in Sub-Saharan Africa by studying Ghanaian tomato markets which are characterized by pronounced seasonality in production and trade flows. We analyse the tomato markets of Ghana by simultaneously regarding its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342911
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Volatility linkages between energy and food prices : case of selected Asian countries
Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Rasoulinezhad, Ehsan; … - 2018
This study examines the linkages between energy price and food prices over the period 2000-2016 by using a Panel-VAR model in the case of eight Asian economies, namely Bangladesh, the PRC, Indonesia, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Our results confirm that energy price (oil...
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