Methods to analyse agricultural commodity price volatility [electronic resource] / Isabelle Piot-Lepetit, Robert M'Barek, editors ; foreword by John Bensted-Smith.

"This book examines the issue of price volatility in agricultural commodities markets and how this phenomenon has evolved in recent years. The factors underlying the price spike of 2007-08 appear to be global and macroeconomic in nature, including the rapid growth in demand by developing countr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Piot-Lepetit, Isabelle, M'Barek, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Methods to analyse agricultural commodity price volatility / Isabelle Piot-Lepetit and Robert M'Barek
  • Main challenges of price volatility in agricultural commodity markets / Monika Tothova
  • The energy/non-energy price link: channels, issues and implications / John Baffes
  • Food price volatility / Christopher L Gilbert and C Wyn Morgan
  • Empirical issues relating to dairy commodity price volatility / Declan O'Connor and Michael Keane
  • Price volatility and price leadership in the EU beef and pork meat market / Isabelle Piot-Lepetit
  • Using futures prices to forecast US corn prices: model performance with increased price volatility / Linwood A Hoffman
  • Approaches to assess higher dimensional price volatility co-movements / Jochen Schmitz and Oliver von Ledebur
  • Price co-movements in iinternationalmarkets and their impacts on price dynamics / Hadj Saadi
  • Price transmission and volatility spillovers in food markets of developing countries / George Rapsomanikis and Harriet Mugera
  • Global food commodity price volatility and developing country import risks / Alexander Sarris
  • Dealing with volatility in agriculture:policy issues / Beatriz Velazquez.