We examine how media coverage of fluctuations in the price of agricultural commodities affects these prices and their volatility. We develop a unified empirical framework to analyze the media's effects on both returns and volatility using insights from the literature. We use daily prices of...

The paper develops a novel approach to account for serially dependent extreme price changes under the assumption that the tail distribution follows the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD). Our approach can 1) detect serial dependence of extreme price changes, and 2) can be applied when...