This paper addresses the role of market remoteness in explaining maize price volatility in Burkina Faso. A model of … price formation is introduced to demonstrate formally that transport costs between urban and rural markets exacerbate maize … price volatility. Empirical support is provided to the proposition by exploring an unusually rich data set of monthly maize …

listing of ethanol has had a positive contribution to both price and volatility in the corn market, especially in the spot and …

impact of biofuel policy on commodity price variability is poorly understood. A good understanding of biofuel policy's impact … on price variability is important for mitigating food insecurity and assisting policy formation. We examine how U ….S. ethanol policies such as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) mandates and the blend wall affect the price variability of corn …

correction models are used to study the relationship between oil prices and prices of copper and maize. The commodity price data …This study explains the effects of crude oil prices on copper and maize prices. Vector autoregressive and vector error … used consist of average monthly prices of each of the commodities: crude oil, copper and maize for the months January 1982 …