Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Matthias Kalkuhl, Joachim von Braun, Maximo Torero

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 626 p. 134 illus., 56 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 338.1
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural economics; Agricultural Economics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KalkuhlMatthias; von BraunJoachim; ToreroMaximo
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Food Price Volatility at International Food Commodity markets -- Part II: Commodity and Financial Market Linkages -- Part 3: National and Regional Response to Food Price volatility -- Part IV: the Micro-Economics of Price risk, volatility and Price shocks: Household, Firms and Communities.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.
• Titolo autorizzato: Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy
• ISBN: 3-319-28201-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910164341603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II