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The Economics of Food Price Volatility / / Jean-Paul Chavas, David Hummels, Brian D. Wright
| The Economics of Food Price Volatility / / Jean-Paul Chavas, David Hummels, Brian D. Wright |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (394 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.19 |
| Collana | National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report |
| Soggetto topico |
Agriculture - Economic aspects
Food prices |
| Soggetto non controllato | food price, groceries, instability, inflation, poverty, income, wealth gap, economics, public policy, farming, agriculture, consumers, market forces, production, waste, biofuel, supply shocks, demand, financial speculation, history, energy, weather, global warming, drought, nonfiction, technology, corn, harvest, commodity, environmentalism, rational storage, bubbles, domestic stabilization, insulation, protection, scarcity, hunger, social sciences |
| ISBN | 0-226-12908-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Influences of Agricultural Technology on the Size and Importance of Food Price Variability -- 2. Corn Production Shocks in 2012 and Beyond: Implications for Harvest Volatility -- 3. Biofuels, Binding Constraints, and Agricultural Commodity Price Volatility -- 4. The Evolving Relationships between Agricultural and Energy Commodity Prices: A Shifting- Mean Vector Autoregressive Analysis -- 5. Bubble Troubles? Rational Storage, Mean Reversion, and Runs in Commodity Prices -- 6. Bubbles, Food Prices, and Speculation: Evidence from the CFTC's Daily Large Trader Data Files -- 7. Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries -- 8. Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation, and Poverty -- 9. Trade Insulation as Social Protection -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838368103321 |
| Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Economics of Poverty Traps / / Michael Carter, Christopher B. Barrett, Jean-Paul Chavas, Michael R. Carter
| The Economics of Poverty Traps / / Michael Carter, Christopher B. Barrett, Jean-Paul Chavas, Michael R. Carter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (425 pages) |
| Disciplina | 339.46 |
| Collana | National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report |
| Soggetto topico |
Poverty
Public welfare Transfer payments Marginality, Social |
| ISBN |
9780226574448
022657444X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Human Capital and Shocks. Evidence on Education, Health, and Nutrition -- 2. Poverty and Cognitive Function -- Comment on Chapters 1 and 2 -- 3. Depression through the Lens of Economics. A Research Agenda -- 4. Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways. Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Comment on Chapters 3 and 4 -- 5. Taking Stock of the Evidence on Microfinancial Interventions -- 6. Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox -- 7. Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics. On the Roles of Risk and Ability -- 8. Agroecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks -- Comment on Chapters 7 and 8 -- 9. Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End. Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investments in Children -- 10. Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape an Intergenerational Poverty Trap? -- Comment on Chapters 9 and 10 -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838233103321 |
| Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2019] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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