Download or read book Global Commodity Price Stabilization written by Mohamed Osman Suliman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-02-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with commodity price stabilization. It explores the contemporary changes in global trade agreements and their relationship to the ongoing changes in international and regional trade structures and economic integration. It takes a wholistic, interdisciplinary approach, including economic, legal and political aspects; examines the EC and NAFTA as important trade blocs, and their impact on global economies. Investigates the Chinese approach to trade management, the oil price stabilization policies, and seabed minerals; discusses discrimination in international trade. The interdisciplinary nature of the book is given prominence through the layout of the various parts. Part I examines the legal issues of commodity trade, investigating the debate over whether international trade agreements create hard law or soft law. Part II discusses the political economy of contemporary global trade issues, including the rise of intraindustry trade and discrimination in international trade. Part III addresses the recent trend towards regionalism and trade blocs, focusing on the EC and NAFTA, and their economic implications. Finally, Part IV presents the issues of commodity trade stabilization for minerals and oil, including both land-based and seabed commodities.
Download or read book Commodity Price Stabilization and Policy Reform written by Avishay Braverman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commodity Price Stabilization and the Developing Countries written by Ezriel M. Brook and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commodity Market Reforms written by John Baffes and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural commodity markets in many developing countries are being reformed and are being based on market forces rather than regulated prices and official monopolies. This book discusses reforms in the markets for cocoa, coffee, cotton, grains, and sugar and looks at the reasons for success and failure.
Download or read book The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization a Study in the Economics of Risk written by David M. G. Newbery and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commodity Prices and the New Inflation written by Barry P. Bosworth and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Distributional Incidence of Commodity Price Stabilization in an Open Economy written by Peter Gibbard and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Commodity Policy written by Roland Herrmann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993, this book provides an excellent analysis of commodity policies internationally during the late 20th Century. It discusses 2 major methods of market regulation: price stabilization – based on buffer stocks or export quotas – and compensatory finance. The authors analyse whether major commodity policies have reached their primary objectives and to what extent they have had economic side effects. Discussion of more general policy issues centres around three international commodity agreements for coffee, rubber and cocoa. The authors also look at the policies adopted by individual nations to regulate commodity trading and assess to what extent they have reached their objectives. A discussion of the intervention of the International Monetary Fund and STABEX assesses the degree of stability they can provide in a highly volatile and variable environment. Nearly 30 years later, volatile world commodity markets are still a major issue in the policy dialogue. Although topics, policy instruments and concepts have changed, this book remains a fundamental contribution to the study of international commodity policy. It will be of great interest to students of commodity policy and economic development and economists in national and international organizations dealing with market stabilization.
Download or read book Stabilizing World Commodity Markets written by Francis Gerard Adams and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commodity Price Stabilization and the Developing Countries written by Ezriel M. Brook and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring Welfare Changes from Commodity Price Stabilization in Small Open Economies written by Jonathan R. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets written by Bernd Lucke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International commodity markets have traditionally attracted the attention of economists, econometricians, and policy makers especially in and following politically tumultuous times. For instance, the primary commodity price boom of 1973/74 and the subsequent period of highly volatile world market prices initiated increased research on commodity markets which quickly focused on possible price stabilization schemes, particularly on buffer stocks. Simultaneously, the issue clearly advanced in priority on the political agenda, such that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) proposed an "Integrated Program for Commodities" (IPC) intended to stabilize the world market prices of ten so-called "core commodities"l (UNCTAD (1974, 1976a), Behrman (1979)). Many developing nations welcomed the IPC almost enthusiastically, but it did not receive more than lukewarm support by major industrialized countries, apparently due to the experience with some thirty international commodity agreements past World War II2. Critical evaluations have, among others, been presented by McNicol (1978), Gordon-Ashworth (1984), and Macbean & Nguyen (1987). The most detailed of these studies is Gordon-Ashworth's, who concludes that "on balance ... the performance of international commodity agreements has been too unreliable and their distributive effects too uneven to secure the development goals that have been set" (1984, p. 284)3. Consequently, the IPC turned out to be quite controversial a topic on the UNCTAD's 1976 meeting in Nairobi and has not been able to gain any impetus since. lThese were cocoa, coffee, copper, cotton, jute, rubber, sisal, sugar, tea, and tin.
Download or read book Stabilizing Speculative Commodity Markets written by S. Ghosh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After briefly reviewing the problems caused by commodity price instability, the authors develop a mathematical model for commodity markets. The implications of this model for intervention and the welfare effects are then considered. A fully developed model of the world copper market is usedto investigate alternative buffer stock intervention rules in order to assess the scope and limitations of such stabilization strategies.
Download or read book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability written by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. Since 2006, global food prices have fluctuated greatly around an increasing trend and price spikes were observed for key food commodities such as rice, wheat, and maize. The full or partial transmission of these global food price changes to individual developing countries, together with domestic food price changes, caused by domestic factors such as extreme weather events and market disruptions, caused governments to respond in a variety of ways. While there is ample description of the nature, content, and causes of food price fluctuations during the last 5 to 7 years, very little is known about the processes that led to policy responses or the relative power and behaviour of the participating stakeholder groups. Understanding how and why governments responded as they did is important to enhance the existing knowledge of the political economy of food price policy and to assist governments in their policy-making as they confront future food price fluctuations. This book presents results from political economy studies of food price policy in 14 developing countries as well as the United States and the European Union.
Download or read book The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization written by David M. G. Newbery and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commodity Models for Forecasting and Policy Analysis written by Walter C. Labys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1984 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Commodity Price Stabilization Through Use of Futures Markets written by Robert Arthur Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study was to analyze a proposal to stabilize spot commodity prices through government operations in the futures market. The proposal was advanced by H. S. Houthakker, who held that stocks of agricultural commodities should be stored by private firms because they derive greater convenience yield from the stocks than the government. Hance, he implies that it would be socially desirable for the stocks to be carried by private firms. Private traders, however, fail to carry sufficient stocks over long periods (6-9 months) because of uncertainty about future prices. Therefore, the government should prevent unduly wide price movements, but allow prices to fluctuate from day to day also to change over time in response to basic development in production and consuption. To operate the proposal, a government agency should be created to buy and sell futures contracts. The agency would attempt to stabilize prices around a three year moving average of spot prices. When spot prices fall below a certain level, say 85% of the three year moving average, the agency would buy futures contracts 6-9 months from maturity. Private traders would then sell futures contracts (hedge) and accumulate stocks. Spot supplies would fall and spot prices rise. When spot prices exced a certain level, say 115% of the three year moving average, the agency would sell futures contracts. Private traders would then close hedges and reduce inventory levels. The resultant increase in spot supplies would reduce prices. (...).
