In the context of recent commodity price hikes, the financialisation of commodity derivative markets, reflected in the …

This paper is about understanding the cycle of global copper price booms and busts over Zambia's economic history. We … Zambian governments did not use copper revenues to accumulate productive assets, focusing instead on financing consumption … ringfence and prudently use the mineral revenues from copper mining in building productive capacities remains elusive. Instead …

This paper explores the role of speculation and economy fundamentals in the oil market using a two-component GARCH …

factors shows that speculation effect is stronger than demand- and supply-side shocks for short term price spikes. Overall … 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 …