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What drives food price volatility? Evidence based on a generalized VAR approach applied to the food, financial and energy markets

Śmiech, Sławomir; Papież, Monika; Dąbrowski, Marek A.; … - 2018

The aim of this study is to investigate sources of food prices volatility. The analysis uses daily series for volatility of corn, soybean, wheat, rice, US dollar, crude oil, and SP500 futures spanning the period January 4, 2000 to April 1, 2017. The authors employ the generalized vector...

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Exports and governance: The role of private voluntary standards

Fiankor, Dela-Dem Doe; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2018

the adoption of private food standards and certifications modify the effect of governance distance on exports within a … of standards and the governance distance is positively associated with exports, hence partially offsetting their direct … governance and institutions differ between countries as "governance distance". Using a sample of EU/EFTA imports, we examine how …

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Entwicklungen des Obstbaus in Deutschland von 2005 bis 2017: Obstarten, Anbauregionen, Betriebsstrukturen und Handel

Garming, Hildegard; Dirksmeyer, Walter; Bork, Linda - 2018

In Deutschland wurde im Jahr 2017 auf rund 76.000 ha in rund 11.000 Betrieben Obst angebaut. Der Obstbau ist gegliedert in den Anbau von Baumobst (49.934 ha), Strauchbeeren (6.838 ha) und Erdbeeren (18.649 ha). Der Bericht gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklung der Anbauflächen...

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Agricultural trade reform, reallocation and technical change: Evidence from the Canadian Prairies

Brown, Mark; Ferguson, Shon; Viju, Crina - 2017

We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new...

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Deregulation and regional specialization: Evidence from Canadian agriculture

Carter, Colin Andre; Ferguson, Shon - 2017

For about seventy years, the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) was one of the world's largest export "single desk" state traders in agriculture, until it was deregulated in 2012 and stripped of its marketing powers. One of the main crops controlled by the CWB was barley. We estimate the impact of the...

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Farm size, technology adoption and agricultural trade reform: Evidence from Canada

Brown, W. Mark; Ferguson, Shon; Viju, Crina - 2018

Using detailed census data covering over 40,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada, we document the vast and increasing farm size heterogeneity, and analyze the role of farm size in adapting to the removal of an export subsidy in 1995. We find that larger farms were more likely...

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Measuring the impact of agricultural production shocks on international trade flows

Ferguson, Shon; Gars, Johan - 2018

The purpose of this study is to measure the sensitivity of traded quantities and trade unit values to agricultural production shocks. We develop a general equilibrium model of trade in which production shocks in exporting countries affect both traded quantities and trade unit values. The model...

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The role of institutional quality on the performance in the export of coconut products

Lin, Jessie; Flachsbarth, Insa; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan - 2018

The literature that addresses the role of institutions in bilateral trade is extensive. However, research that link institutional quality to specific products and their different levels of value addition is lacking. In this study, we look into institutional quality, based on three indicators...

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International Food Commodity Prices and Missing (Dis)Inflation in the Euro Area

Peersman, Gert - 2018

This paper examines the causal effects of shifts in international food commodity prices on euro area inflation dynamics using a structural VAR model that is identified with an external instrument (i.e. a series of global harvest shocks). The results reveal that exogenous food commodity price...

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Liberalizing the Swiss Meat Market with the EU: Welfare Effects and Impacts on Third Countries

Campo, Isabelle Schluep; Jörin, Robert - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 145 (2009) 1, pp. 107-126

The paper assesses by means of welfare analysis the effects of trade creation and trade diversion in a Swiss-EU free trade agreement (FTA) in the meat sector and compares it to multilateral trade liberalization. A multi-market multi-region partial equilibrium model is used. The FTA is checked...

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