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The study analyzes food inflation trends in India over the last decade. Annual trends show that different commodities have contributed to food inflation in different years and that no single commodity shows uniformly high inflation. A decomposition exercise shows that eggs, meat, fish, milk,...
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In this paper, the development of price volatility on German agricultural markets is analyzed. The goal is to quantify … the degree of price volatility for selected German agricultural markets and determine how it evolutes over time. Where …, questions are: Was there an increase in price volatility? Did it came from the world markets? What is the impact of price …
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developing price and food security indicators and models that will guide policy implementation also in the short run. Such models … international food prices and proposed solutions to the crisis. These studies have covered global as well as local food price … dynamics and policy reactions. The food price problem is, however, far-reaching, and its impacts are wide and interrelated. The …
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acreage responds to crop prices and price risks, input costs as well as a time trend. Depending on respective crop, short …-run elasticities are about 0.05 to 0.25; price volatility tends to reduce acreage response of some crops; comparison of the annual and … months. -- food price volatility ; acreage response ; price expectation ; land use ; food supply …
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acreage responds to crop prices and price risks, input costs as well as a time trend. Depending on respective crop, short …-run elasticities are about 0.05 to 0.25; price volatility tends to reduce acreage response of some crops; comparison of the annual and …
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We examine how media coverage of fluctuations in the price of agricultural commodities affects these prices and their … sophisticated relationships among phrases in a news article which signal an increase or decrease in the price of those four … commodities.We find price effects that are economically important in size. Our estimates imply a net increasing effect of media …
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Food price volatility has spiked to levels last seen in the 1970s. For low-income countries, food price hikes, such as …. The 2007-2008 food crisis, and the resumption of more recent food price spikes, clearly have a number of causes. That said …, in reviewing over a century of commodity price volatility, there are episodes of low volatility and high volatility …
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This study examines the linkages between energy price and food prices over the period 2000-2016 by using a Panel … Viet Nam. Our results confirm that energy price (oil price) has a significant impact on food prices. According to the …, the findings from variance decomposition reveal that shares of oil prices in agricultural food price volatilities are the …
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The purpose of this study is to measure the sensitivity of traded quantities and trade unit values to agricultural production shocks. We develop a general equilibrium model of trade in which production shocks in exporting countries affect both traded quantities and trade unit values. The model...
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We examine how media coverage of fluctuations in the price of agricultural commodities affects these prices and their … sophisticated relationships among phrases in a news article which signal an increase or decrease in the price of those four … commodities. We find price effects that are economically important in size. Our estimates imply a net increasing effect of media …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763674