Pies, Ingo; Prehn, Sören; Glauben, Thomas; Will, … - 2013
This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey on the real economy … factors that caused recent hunger crises, and (2) an overview on academic research on the impact of index-based financial … speculation on agricultural markets, and (3) a discussion of political measures that are appropriate – or inappropri-ate – for …