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The interactions between agricultural commodity and oil prices: an empirical analysis
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2015 The purpose of the study is to analyse the short and long-term relationships between the world oil prices (Europe Brent Spot Price and West Texas Intermediate Spot Price) and the agricultural commodity prices (Wheat, Corn and Soybeans).
Ayhan KAPUSUZOGLU, Merve KARACAER ULUSOY
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Commodity Prices, Commodity Currencies, and Global Economic Developments [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 In this paper, we seek to produce forecasts of commodity price movements that can systematically improve on naive statistical benchmarks. We revisit how well changes in commodity currencies perform as potential efficient predictors of commodity prices, a view emphasized in the recent literature.
Jan J. J. Groen, Paolo Pesenti
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
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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-Price Destabilizing, Commodity Price Stabilization
, 1993 In buffer stocks established by International Commodity Agreements, typically the buffer stock manager (BSM) is given: (i) inadequate resources to defend the price floor on her own; (ii) considerable discretion in day-to-day operations. These two features are shown to imply that the buffer stock can as easily add volatility to the market as remove it ...
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Commodity Prices Remain High [PDF]
Intereconomics, 2007 The upward trend in raw materials prices that started five years ago has not yet come to an end. A major reason for this has been the ongoing strength of commodity demand, primarily from Asia and from China in particular. But with gradually rising raw material supplies and somewhat lower global economic growth the prospects for a reversal in the price ...
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International risk sharing and commodity prices [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2011 Abstract Cole and Obstfeld (1991) exposited a classic result where equilibrium movements in the terms of trade could make ex ante risk‐sharing arrangements unnecessary: a unity elasticity of substitution across goods and production specialization. This paper extends their model to N countries and M commodities (N > M).
Martin Berka +2 more
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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Lecturas de Economía, 2016 In the context of the “Asian economic miracle”, changes in commodity prices between 2004 and 2014 may have been dominated by the effects of the entry of portfolio investors as major participants in commodity index positions and new financial products ...
Esteban Otto Thomasz +2 more
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On Agricultural Commodities' Extreme Price Risk [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 AbstractWe show how fat tails in agricultural commodity returns arise endogenously from productivity shocks in a standard macroeconomic model. Using nearly ninety years of data, we show that the eight agricultural commodities in our sample exhibit fat-tailed return distributions.
Maarten R. C. van Oordt +2 more
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