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, volatility, and spikes. While price trends are important in the long term, volatility and spikes are more important in the short … volatility. An assessment of the costs of price volatility has shown that the existing literature follows a conventional marginal …. Measuring and estimating the cost of food price volatility should factor in ongoing processes such as economic growth and …
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Although the potential causes and consequences of recent increases in international food prices have attracted widespread attention, many existing appraisals are superficial and/or piecemeal. This paper attempts to provide a more comprehensive review of these issues based on the best and most...
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, questions are: Was there an increase in price volatility? Did it came from the world markets? What is the impact of price …In this paper, the development of price volatility on German agricultural markets is analyzed. The goal is to quantify … the degree of price volatility for selected German agricultural markets and determine how it evolutes over time. Where …
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, questions are: Was there an increase in price volatility? Did it came from the world markets? What is the impact of price …In this paper, the development of price volatility on German agricultural markets is analyzed. The goal is to quantify … the degree of price volatility for selected German agricultural markets and determine how it evolutes over time. Where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003989
Financial markets exhibit an asymmetric news effect with unexpected low prices generating more price volatility than …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using … terms of compensating variation. The paper finds that: (a) poor households are the most affected by food price volatility … and (b) the welfare losses from food price volatility depend on the extent of any price hike. …
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prices and their volatility. We focus on three major and liquid agricultural markets: corn, soybeans and wheat. We find … positions bear some predictive ability for volatility. This relationship is mainly concentrated on the 2006-2009 period that … includes the recent financial crisis. Finally, we find that volatility decreases with the positions of index fund traders …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using … terms of compensating variation. The paper finds that: (a) poor households are the most affected by food price volatility … and,(b) the welfare losses from food price volatility depend on the extent of any price hike …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919592
volatility at farm gate level. In number, 600 rural farmers were sampled across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Results … obtained from the use of a bivariate probit model show that farmers relied on the GESS for resolving food price volatility by …
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volatility at farm gate level. In number, 600 rural farmers were sampled across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Results … obtained from the use of a bivariate probit model show that farmers relied on the GESS for resolving food price volatility by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103600