The present paper provides a literature review of studies examining the potential causes and consequences of recent surges in food and agricultural commodity prices. Furthermore, this paper uses the structural trend methodology proposed by Koopman et al. (2009) to analyze movements in the IMF...

This study examines the long-run relationship between crude oil prices, US dollar exchange rates and the prices of thirty selected international agricultural prices and five international fertilizer prices using panel econometric methods with and without unobserved heterogeneous effects on data...

This study examines the relationship between crude oil prices, US dollar exchange rates and thirty selected international agricultural prices and five international fertilizer prices in a panel framework. The study uses panel VAR methods and Granger causality tests on panel data sets of...

This paper investigates volatility spillover effects between relative food prices and explicit macroeconomic fundamentals, i.e. exchange rates, money balances, inflation, and the deficit to income ratio, through the methodology of GARCH models. The findings showed that significant and positive...