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Title Global uncertainty and the volatility of agricultural commodities prices / edited by Bertrand R. Munier
Published Amstersam ; Washington, D.C. : IOS Press, ©2012

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Contents Title Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction -- World Uncertainty: The Modeling Gap in Commodities Markets; Expectation and Prediction Issues; Dynamic Modelling of Agricultural Policies: The Role of Expectation Schemes; Predicting Agri-Commodity Prices: An Asset Pricing Approach; Policy Issues; Development Based on Commodity Revenues; Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World; Price Stabilization for Staple Foods: Costs and Benefits, Implications for Modeling, and Using Trade Policy as a Safety Net
Summary The recent global financial crisis exposed the serious limitations of existing economic and financial models. Not only did macro models fail to predict the crisis, they seemed incapable of explaining what was happening to the economy. Policymakers felt abandoned by the conventional tools of the now obsolete Washington consensus and the World Trade Organization's oversimplified faith in free markets. The traditional models for agricultural commodities have so far failed to take into account the uncertain character of the global agricultural economy and its ferocious consequences in food price vo
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Subject Agricultural prices.
Produce trade.
Farm produce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
Agricultural prices
Farm produce
Produce trade
Form Electronic book
Author Munier, Bertrand
IOS Press
LC no. 2012934635
ISBN 9781614990376
1614990379
661371724X
1280875933
9781280875939
9786613717245