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Eurostat. Catalogue of characteristics of agricultural price series stored in CRONOS
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ISBN: 9282579875 9282644227 9789282644225 9789282579879 Year: 1988 Volume: vol *54 Publisher: Luxembourg Office des publications officielles des Communautés européennes

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Methods to analyse agricultural commodity price volatility.
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ISBN: 9781441976338 1441976337 1489988815 1441976345 Year: 2011 Publisher: Heidelberg Springer

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"This book examines the issue of price volatility in agricultural commodities markets and how this phenomenon has evolved in recent years. The factors underlying the price spike of 2007-08 appear to be global and macroeconomic in nature, including the rapid growth in demand by developing countries, the international financial crisis, and exchange rate movements. Some of these factors are new, appearing as influences on price volatility only in the last decade. Although volatility has always been a feature of agricultural commodity markets, the evidence suggests that volatility has increased in certain commodity markets. A growing problem is that agricultural price shocks and volatility disrupt agricultural markets, economic incentives and incomes. With increased globalization and integration of financial and energy markets with agricultural commodity markets, the relationships between markets are expanding and becoming more complex. When a crisis such as a regional drought, food safety scare or a financial crisis hits a particular market, policy-makers often do not know the extent to which it will impact on other markets and affect producer, consumer and trader decisions. Including contributions from experts at the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the USDA, and the European Commission, the research developed throughout the chapters of this book is based on current methodologies that can be used to analyze price volatility and provide directions for understanding this volatility and the development of new agricultural policies. The book highlights the challenges facing policy makers in dealing with the changing nature of agricultural commodities markets, and offers recommendations for anticipating price movements and managing their consequences. It will be a practical guide for both present and future policy-makers in deciding on potential price-stabilizing interventions, and will also serve as a useful resource for researchers and students in agricultural economics."--Publisher's website.


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Politiques, marchés et échanges agricoles dans les pays d'Europe centrale et orientale, dans certains nouveaux Etats indépendants, en Mongolie et en Chine : suivi et perspectives 1995


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The political economy of agricultural price distortions.
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ISBN: 9780511778964 9780521763233 9781107616271 9781139042161 1139042165 0521763231 0511778961 1107616271 1107208300 1139035932 1283052024 9786613052025 1139041398 1139044796 1139038257 1139040626 9781139040624 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Cambridge University

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"Despite numerous policy reforms since the 1980s, farm product prices remain heavily distorted in both high-income and developing countries. This book seeks to improve our understanding of why societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms. Drawing on recent developments in political economy theories and in the generation of empirical measures of the extent of price distortions, the present volume provides both analytical narratives of the historical origins of agricultural protectionism in various parts of the world and a set of political econometric analyses aimed at explaining the patterns of distortions that have emerged over the past five decades. These new studies shed much light on the forces affecting incentives and those facing farmers in the course of national and global economic and political development. They also show how those distortions might change in the future - or be changed by concerted actions to offset pressures from vested interests"--

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