Download or read book Three Essays on Agricultural Price Volatility and the Linkages Between Agricultural and Energy Markets written by Feng Wu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Agricultural Price Volatility written by Yiyong Yuan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three essays of this dissertation cover issues of understanding and managing price uncertainty across the meat value chain and related futures market. The first essay discussed the implications of recent change in retailing industry's pricing strategy; the second essay described a State Space Model approach estimation of the joint distribution of cash-futures prices and a simulation-based Conditional-VaR approach determination of optimal futures exposure determination in contrast with minimum variance hedge ratio when preference free optimal hedge ratio does not exist; the third essay described the empirical changes in the hog price volatility summarized by a series of long memory GARCH model of the absolute return series in view of the recent industry structural change. The first essay investigated the impact of two coexisting retail price strategies for selling perishable products on the volatility of both the farm-level price and the retailer's margin. The two strategies included the traditional High-Low strategy and the Every-Day-Low-Price (EDLP) pricing strategy. In contrast to non-perishable consumer products, perishable products, which are often of very inelastic demand, obtain their price fluctuations mainly through supply side shocks. A two-retailer model was developed to examine the volatilities of grocery retailers' margin and producer price due to supply shocks for a perishable product. Results indicated a volatility difference exists between EDLP and High-Low retailers' marginal revenue when the two pricing strategies coexist, and as the market share of EDLP format increases this margin volatility difference deepens and farm-level price volatility also increases. The second essay proposed a state space model based estimation of the cash-futures price dependence relationship and a coherent C-VaR-approach optimal futures exposure determination based on simulated data in response to situations where the preference-free optimal hedge ratio no longer exists and the minimum variance hedge ratio is not appropriate. The State Space Model serves as an alternative method to other joint distribution estimation methods. The determined optimal futures exposure showed that the minimum variance hedge ratio discourages hedging. Parallel analyses using existing constant minimum conditional variance (MCV) hedge ratio models and a time-varying MCV ratio based on Multivariate GARCH models was also conducted for comparison. The C-VaR approach optimal futures position exposure reported different optimal futures positions for the "short hedge" and the "long hedge" situations. The third essay analyzed the historical change of the realized price volatility defined as the weekly hog price absolute return from 1973 to 2008 using long memory effect in the mean and variance process. The ARFIMA-FIGARCH/IGARCH Model results confirmed a significant long memory effect in the absolute return for a period around the end of the 1990s with documented structural change. I found no significant long memory effect for any other period. The model result also showed a significant ARCH-M effect that is explained as a fierce industry structural adjustment leading to a more dramatic price volatility change.

Download or read book Three Essays on Agricultural Policy and Food Demand written by Jing Zhao (Economist) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays study important causes and interactions of agricultural policy and food demand. Essay one identifies the pattern of wheat support and income over historical data. The results indicate that income has statistically significant effects on wheat support, the pattern is nonlinear and varies among support mechanisms, and this relationship permits estimation of the future support. Essay two examines the effect of China wheat stock policies in 2006-2013 on the market using a structural economic model. Simulation results suggest that government stock policies stabilized wheat market prices, if measured by the standard deviation, and raised production in China. Essay three applies fixed effect and demand system models to estimate how refrigerator ownership affects food consumption in rural China. Refrigerator ownership reduces total food expenditure and meat consumption quantity, according to the estimation results, and might increase the expenditure share of perishable foods, like meat, egg and seafood. Taken as a whole, the results suggest that scientists should consider the impact of expanding refrigerator ownership, recognize the potential effect of public stocks on the evolution of price, and include the income-to-support relationship in long-run analysis to generate more accurate projections of consumption, price volatility, and agricultural support.

Download or read book Three Essays In Commodity Price Dynamics written by Amal Dabbous and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of three essays in commodity price dynamics. In the first essay, we embed a staggered price feature into the speculative storage model of Deaton and Laroque (1996). Intermediate goods inventory speculators are added as an additional source of intertemporal linkage which helps us to replicate the stylized facts of the observed commodity price dynamics. The staggered pricing mechanism adopted in this paper can be viewed as a parsimonious way of approximating various types of frictions that increase the degree of persistence in the first two conditional moments of commodity prices. The structural parameters of our model are estimated by simulated method of moments using actual prices for four agricultural commodities. Simulated data are then employed to assess the effects of our staggered price approach on the time series properties of commodity prices. Our results lend empirical support to the possibility of staggered prices. The second essay investigates the determinants of the percentage change in commodity prices. We apply the dynamic Gordon growth model technique and conduct the variance decomposition for the percentage change in spot commodity prices to 6 agricultural commodities. The model explains the percentage change in spot commodity prices in terms of the expected present discounted values of interest rate, yield spread, open interest and convenience yield. Empirical results indicate that the model is successful in capturing a large proportion of the variability in the 6 agricultural commodity prices. Moreover, we show that yield spread and open interest help predicting changes in commodity prices. Finally, the third essay evaluates different hedging strategies for eleven commodities. In addition to the traditional regression hedge ratio model (OLS) and the vector error correction model (VECM), we estimate dynamic hedge ratios using the conventional dynamic conditional correlation model (DCC) of Engle (2002) and the diagonal BEKK model (DBEKK) of Engle and Kroner (1995). Moreover, we propose two more advanced models, the DCC model and the DBEKK model that will account for the impact of the growth rate of open interest on market’s volatility and co-movements of commodity spot and futures returns. The empirical analysis shows that adding the growth rate of open interest improves the in-sample hedging effectiveness of the DCC model. Furthermore, the out-of-sample hedging exercise empirical results show that static models present the best out-of-sample hedging performance for 5 of the commodities. The DCC model presents the smallest basis variance for 4 of the commodities. The DBEKK model with the growth rate of open interest performs the best in terms of the basis variance reduction for corn and wheat. Our out-of-sample empirical findings provide important implications for futures hedging and highlight the fact that the use of static models to determine the optimal hedge ratio could be more effective than the use of dynamic hedge ratio models.

Download or read book Three essays on price analysis of selected agricultural commodities written by Yuanlong Ge and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Imperfect Competition in Agricultural Markets written by Mingxia Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Trade Agreements Agricultural Commodity Prices and Unconditional Quantile Regression written by Na Li and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Self regulation Productivity and Non linear Pricing written by Angelo M. Zago and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries written by Aakanksha Melkani and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robust and vibrant agricultural markets are an important component of inclusive agriculture-led economic development. Governments of developing countries play an important role in fostering an enabling environment for agricultural markets to thrive and in addressing shortcomings arising due to incomplete agricultural markets. However, excessive government involvement can also lead to inefficiencies and can further obstruct the development of agricultural markets. This dissertation focuses on various agricultural market outcomes and evaluates them in light of government interventions that potentially have a direct or indirect effect on them.The first essay investigates whether and how liquidity constraints during the production period affect smallholders' market participation and choice of marketing channel in the context of the Zambian maize market. During the period of the study, the country's parastatal marketing board 0́3 the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) 0́3 operated alongside private buyers and purchased large volumes of maize at a pan-territorial price that exceeded average market prices. Results indicate that liquidity-constrained maize-growing smallholders produced less maize output, were less likely to sell maize, and were less likely to sell to the FRA, as compared to those that did not face liquidity constraints. These results imply that benefits of market policies like those of the FRA are likely to be disproportionately captured by relatively wealthier and less resource constrained farmers.The second essay focusses on the effects of various regulations imposed on international trade and the domestic fertilizer market on fertilizer imports - an important component of domestic fertilizer supply in most developing countries. The results indicate that increased time and/or costs needed to comply with border regulations (such as clearing customs and inspections) are associated with a decline in the volume of fertilizer imported. However, fertilizer market-specific regulations are not found to be statistically significantly associated with fertilizer imports. Further investigation reveals that the border regulation-related findings hold mainly for high and middle-income countries, plausibly due to poor enforcement of formal laws and the greater importance of informal rules in the markets of low-income countries.The third essay explores whether price uncertainty (a form of price volatility) affects the price levels of maize products in urban Zambia, in light of the highly discretionary and ad-hoc government interventions in the country's maize markets. Excessive price volatility of staple food products has adverse effects on food and nutritional security of vulnerable populations and can potentially disrupt the development of resilient food markets. I conduct a Vector Autoregressive-Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (1,1)-in-mean (VAR-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean) analysis of monthly price data for four maize products: wholesale maize grain, retail maize grain, and two types of maize flour 0́3 breakfast meal (highly refined) and roller meal (less refined). I find some weak evidence that an increase in uncertainty in wholesale maize grain prices is associated with a small increase in own prices, although this result does not hold across all specifications. Price uncertainty of other products is not found to be associated with changes in prices of own or other products. The application of VAR-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean to model prices of food products across a value chain is a methodological improvement over existing studies in this area in a developing country context.

Download or read book Three Essays Analyzing the Pricing of a Community Supported Agriculture System written by Dwayne Bauknight and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy written by Matthias Kalkuhl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Three Essays On Nepalese Development written by Sridhar Thapa and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work addresses the empirical issues pertaining to technology adoption decisions, agricultural commodity price volatility and the effects of remittances on recipient households, combined with the motivation of migration decisions in Nepal under the theories of incomplete and imperfect markets. This work applies a number of econometric models to test a number of the hypotheses using both panel and cross-section data from the Nepal Living Standard Surveys and time series data for commodity prices and farm yields. The findings show that as geographical heterogeneity seems to be major constraint for market integration, well-functioning factor markets and well-developed infrastructure emerge as the precondition for agricultural-led growth in Nepal. Moreover, the study also shows that rural people with larger family size and higher per capita income without remittances have higher probability to go migrate. Evidence further shows that remittances decrease work hours in a number of sectors, but increases work hours of hired labour in remittance receiving households. Remittance income seems to be a substitute of non-labour income for remittance-receiving households.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Effects of Nominal Price Volatility on Real Activity written by Jyh-Dean Hwang and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in International Finance written by Rita Madarassy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economics of Food Price Volatility written by Jean-Paul Chavas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The conference was organized by the three editors of this book and took place on August 15-16, 2012 in Seattle."--Preface.

Download or read book Proceedings of Selected Articles of 2013 World Agricultural Outlook Conference written by Shiwei Xu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food security has always been a major global concern and is getting more attention in recent years. In fact, the global economy and stability has been severely challenged by the precarious state of food security, which was exacerbated by a combination of sharp price volatility and disastrous weather conditions related to climate change. The book aims to improve the analysis and projection of agricultural production and marketing, facilitates information exchange to better food supply and demand, and ultimately contributes to enhance world food security and sustainable global agricultural development.

Download or read book Safeguarding Food Security in Volatile Global Markets written by Adam Prakash and published by Bright Sparks. This book was released on 2011 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely publication as world leaders deliberate the causes of the latest bouts of food price volatility and search for solutions that address the recent velocity of financial, economic, political, demographic, and climatic change. As a collection compiled from a diverse group of economists, analysts, traders, institutions and policy formulators - comprising multiple methodologies and viewpoints - the book exposes the impact of volatility on global food security, with particular focus on the world's most vulnerable.