Santini 2022). Currently, though, international agricultural trade is facing supply chain disruptions and rising world market … China-US trade war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are further rattling the food market. As the world's largest consumer … of agricultural goods, China's trade strategies influence world markets, with ripple-down effects for consumers around …

, volatility, and spikes. While price trends are important in the long term, volatility and spikes are more important in the short … correlations among themselves. A rising medium-term price trend has triggered extreme short-term price spikes and increased … volatility. An assessment of the costs of price volatility has shown that the existing literature follows a conventional marginal …

scheduled economic releases on three exchange rates: EUR/$, JPY/$ and GBP/$. Using wavelets to analyze volatility behavior, we … empirically show that intraday volatility clusters increase as we approach the time of the releases, and decay exponentially after …. Finally, we propose a wavelet volatility estimator which is not only more efficient than a range estimator that is commonly …

looks at the argument that a strong CAP is needed to feed the world. While hunger in developing countries is undeniably a …

Since 2006, global prices and price volatility for foodgrain commodities have spiked frequently and dramatically. Such … effects on world markets prior to 2006. We then focus on new causal mechanisms that have emerged since 2006, sourced with … interacted with each other and with biofuel policies in the rest of the world. This assessment focuses on the role of such …