Global uncertainty and the volatility of agricultural commodities prices [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bertrand R. Munier

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : IOS Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.13
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural prices; Produce trade; Farm produce
• Altri autori: MunierBertrand R
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction - World Uncertainty: The Modeling Gap in Commodities Markets; Expectation and Prediction Issues; Dynamic Modelling of Agricultural Policies: The Role of Expectation Schemes; Predicting Agri-Commodity Prices: An Asset Pricing Approach; Policy Issues; Development Based on Commodity Revenues; Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World; Price Stabilization for Staple Foods: Costs and Benefits, Implications for Modeling, and Using Trade Policy as a Safety Net ; Speculation and Hoarding: The Specific Case of RiceRice Price Formation in the Short Run and the Long Run: The Role of Market Structure in Explaining Volatility; Global Financialization Modeling: The Modular Approach; Modeling Price Volatility on Agricultural Markets: The Momagri Modular Approach; Subject Index; Index of Names
• Sommario/riassunto: The recent global financial crisis exposed the serious limitations of existing economic and financial models. Not only did macro models fail to predict the crisis, they seemed incapable of explaining what was happening to the economy. Policymakers felt abandoned by the conventional tools of the now obsolete Washington consensus and the World Trade Organization's oversimplified faith in free markets.The traditional models for agricultural commodities have so far failed to take into account the uncertain character of the global agricultural economy and its ferocious consequences in food price vo
• Titolo autorizzato: Global uncertainty and the volatility of agricultural commodities prices
• ISBN: 661371724X; 1-280-87593-3; 9786613717245; 1-61499-037-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790498403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II