among these six variables: rice, wheat, corn, coal, crude oil and ethanol. Our major contribution to the existing literature … innovation accounting analysis of the ECM shocks. 2) We uncover a recent price transmission among major food-energy markets in … energy prices. We also find that ethanol price is neither in the long-run equilibrium nor responding to deviation from long …

This paper examines the effects of households’ shocks on saving behaviour. It investigates the possibility that … households save ex ante to buffer against adverse weather and health shocks. The relatively high prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in …

. Factors driving higher commodity prices are tight global supplies and increased demand of corn ethanol in the short term … corn ethanol, primarily because of high oil prices. Higher oil prices also increase fuel and energy costs, which increase …