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Value of Information of Improved Traceability in Fresh Produce Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traceability plays an important role in promoting a safe food supply by fostering transparent information exchange along the food supply chain. New technological innovations have the potential to improve traceability outcomes, as greater transparency along the food supply chain can aid in pinpointing precise origins of the contamination ...
Kelsey Vourazeris, Mark R. Manfredo, Michael N. Kozicki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

RANDOM WALKS AND FRACTAL STRUCTURES IN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY FUTURES PRICES [PDF]

This paper investigates whether the assumption of Brownian motion often used to describe commodity price movements is satisfied. Using historical data from 17 commodity futures contracts specific tests of fractional and ordinary Brownian motion are ...
Turvey, Calum G.
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The Influence of Common Language on the Trade of Wheat and Bakery Products

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether sharing a common official language increases the probability that two countries engage in bilateral trade of wheat and bakery products. Using a binary choice framework applied to 54,780 country‐pair observations for 2023, probit and logit models of the extensive margin of trade are estimated, with a focus on whether
Felipe Durães do Nascimento Monteiro Barbosa, Dragan Miljkovic   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the factors affecting dairy commodity returns: the case of European dairy markets

Business, Management and Economics Engineering
Purpose – motivated by the price spikes and booms in major commodities markets around the world, this study looks into the factors that affect the variance in returns from dairy futures contracts.
Algirdas Justinas Staugaitis, Česlovas Christauskas   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hedging Effectiveness of Constant and Time Varying Hedge Ratio in Indian Stock and Commodity Futures Markets [PDF]

This paper examines hedging effectiveness of futures contract on a financial asset and commodities in Indian markets. In an emerging market context like India, the growth of capital and commodity futures market would depend on effectiveness of ...
Pandey, Ajay
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Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez, Olga Isengildina Massa, Michael Liam Smith, Nicole Olynk Widmar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Futures Benefit Farmers? [PDF]

Simulations are used to analyze welfare and market- and farm-level effects of making futures available to producers of a storable commodity. Key features of the model are the explicit consideration of dynamic impacts due to inventories, and of aggregate ...
Lence, Sergio H.
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How Crop Forecast Similarity, Government Policies, and Macroeconomic Conditions Affect WASDE Forecast Accuracy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) play a central role in how agricultural commodity markets process information about supply, demand, and prices. This study examines how global and domestic shocks, as well as policy interventions, are reflected in the similarity of WASDE ...
Zhining Sun, Rabail Chandio, Ani L. Katchova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The predictive effect of heterogeneous investor behavior on commodity pricing

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study examines how commodity financialization—marked by surging capital inflows and new financial instruments like ETFs—affects commodity pricing dynamics by analyzing inventory-linked convenience yield and investor behavior.
Hang Shao, Zhou Li
doaj   +1 more source

Grain Futures Markets: What Have They Learned? [PDF]

Taken together, studies that examine how well commodity futures markets perform find that risk premiums are common—and so unbiasedness is not—and markets are not uniformly efficient across commodities or forecast horizons.
Santos, Joseph M.
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