This paper contributes to the theories commodity prices and exhaustible resources by examining simultaneous optimal resource extraction and dynamic capacity building. I analyze the ways in which random demand process and irreversible capacity options shape the long-term price and volatility path...

Andrea suggests that the internationally accepted understanding of access to food as a human right has been violated by the current trend toward what Marx has aptly termed the commodification of food. Food markets need regulation, Andrea argues, because they affect the lives of billions of...

Using the Tsay (1988) outlier identification methodology on daily log-returns of 16 commodity spot price series and 25 commodity index series, this study assesses the impact significant and unexpected news announcements had on volatility between January 1, 1997 and December 31, 2007. Results...