To capture the volatility in the global food commodity prices, we employed two competing models, the thin tailed the … simplicity may lead to unreliable results of the conditional volatility estimates. The paper also shows that the volatility of … food commodity prices characterized with the intermediate and short memory behavior, implying that the volatility of food …

food price volatility since the L'Aquila Initiative in 2009. It shows that some progress was achieved with respect to … volatility.Regarding financial markets the respective initiatives of the US and the EU prove the willingness of the executive to …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … price volatility. This study shows the nature of the resulting collective action problem, with the policy being ineffective …