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This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilising dynamic panel data specifications, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, remittance and aid...
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countries from 2001 to 2010 to make a comprehensive assessment of the effects of food price inflation and volatility on …
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smallholder farmers. The volatility of food prices at the wholesale and retail levels has also remained high, creating … price increases and volatility, separates the relative roles of demand–supply imbalances, cost-push factors and …
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instruments to manage food price volatility. Many developing countries recently pursued price regulation policies, but the … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … be key factor influencing the degree of price volatility. Applied to trade policies, this consistency is defined by the …
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Der Anbau von Lebensmitteln im heimischen Garten, auf Pachtflächen, in Schrebergärten oder Communal Gardens erfreut sich ungeahnter Beliebtheit. Neuere empirische Arbeiten weisen darauf hin, dass Obst- und Gemüseanbau, Kleintierhaltung und Hausschlachtungen jenseits der großstädtischen...
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This study aimed at understanding the Nigerian Stock Market with regards to volatility and prediction, to this effect … volatility. The study found the presence of volatility in all the four stock prices used, while stock price volatility was then …, only two companies¡¯ stock prices were predicted by volatility in their stock prices, while past stock prices predicted …
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(with causal feedback), and that they affect the exchange rate volatility. Finally, with weekly data we highlight that the … euro/dollar volatility "Granger-cause" the rate of return on stocks. …
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This paper investigates the effect of exchange rate volatility on US-UK bilateral trade flows. As part of econometric …
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Heteroscedastic (ARCH) processes to the series in order to model their volatility. The paper finds that just two series have a …
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shows that the evolution of portfolio volatility is influenced by the effects of the current global financial crisis. …
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