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Corporate Investment in Emerging Markets: The Role of Commodity Prices
Economía, 2017 We examine how firm-level and country-specific macroeconomic variables determine corporate investment in emerging markets. In particular, we investigate how investment decisions are affected by changes in country-specific commodity export prices, using ...
Nicolás E. Magud, Sebastián Sosa
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Commodity Markets, Price Limiters and Speculative Price Dynamics [PDF]
We develop a behavioral commodity market model with consumers, producers and heterogeneous speculators to characterize the nature of commodity price fluctuations and to explore the efectiveness of price stabilization schemes.
Xue-Zhong He, Frank H. Westerhoff
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Pesticide MRLs as Trade Barriers: Evidence From Vietnam's Coffee and Rice Exporters
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As tariffs have declined globally through bilateral and regional trade agreements, food safety standards have emerged as significant determinants of agricultural trade flows. This study examines the impact of maximum residue limits (MRLs) for five pesticides—Azoxystrobin, Chlorpyrifos, Chlorantraniliprole, Clothianidin, and Cyhalothrin—on ...
Nhat Mai Nguyen +2 more
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Do financial investors affect the price of wheat?
PSL Quarterly Review, 2012 It is widely debated whether financial speculation was a significant force behind recent food price fluctuations. As a matter of fact, during the 2000s agricultural commodity derivatives markets were flooded by a ‘wall of money’ coming from financial ...
Daniele Girardi
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A note on the behavior of Chinese commodity markets
, 2020 This study investigates the presumed behavioral biases of market participants in the commodity futures markets of China. In light of unique institutional settings and excessive speculation, we document the presence of positive feedback trading, noise ...
Todorova, N, Fan, JH
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When the River Runs Low: Heterogeneous Impacts of Transportation Disruptions on Local Grain Basis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A substantial share of U.S. soybean and corn exports from the Midwest moves by barge along the Mississippi River system to export terminals in the Louisiana Gulf. Transportation costs between Midwestern grain elevators and export terminals create a wedge between prices at these locations, and shocks to these costs are partially passed on to ...
Yuan Zhang +3 more
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Fairtrade and market failures in agricultural commodity markets [PDF]
This paper concerns an NGO intervention in agricultural commodity markets known as Fairtrade. Fairtrade pays producers a minimum unit price and provides capacity building support to member cooperative organizations.
Ronchi, Loraine
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drought is among the most severe and persistent threats to food supply chains, and relocating production to less drought‐prone regions offers a strategy to reduce this risk. This is particularly relevant for fresh vegetables, which are highly water‐intensive, yet drought‐driven reconfiguration strategies remain understudied.
Bingyan Dai +2 more
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Modelling Agricultural Commodity Markets under Imperfect Competition [PDF]
In this paper, we develop a model that explains the exporters’ behaviour in international commodity markets considering explicitly the case of an imperfectly competitive structure of these markets.
Sckokai, Paolo, Soregaroli, Claudio
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets
, 2012 World commodity markets and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities remain highly distorted despite the wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s.
Martin, Will, Hoekman, Bernard
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