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Global uncertainty and the volatility of agricultural commodities prices /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: IOS Press
Otros Autores: Munier, Bertrand
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amstersam ; Washington, D.C. : IOS Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.