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| Ledebur, Oliver von; Schmitz, Jochen. |
| Since 2000 a number of factors impacted agricultural markets drastically. Among these are structural changes in global demand and repeated supply constraints that supported the observed positive development of agricultural prices. Given the increasingly interdependent global markets, the question arises of in how far an isolated view of a single market, when analysing price volatility, is sufficient? The paper is a contribution to the debate on the recent commodity price bubble and the relationship among commodity futures markets for agricultural raw materials. More particularly, the transmission of price volatility between commodity future markets is analysed. The background question is whether and to what extent the volatility of agricultural commodity... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Commodity Futures; Corn; Time Series; Price volatility transmission; Multivariate GARCH; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58136 |
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| D'Antoni, Jeremy M.; Mishra, Ashok K.. |
| Recent generations of farmers have experienced considerable difficulties earning a consistent living wage to support the needs of themselves and their families. To meet these needs, many farmers and their spouses have increasingly left the agricultural industry to seek employment. Previous studies have found government policies intended to slow the migration of labor from agriculture have little influence. Using an autoregressive distributed lag model and adjusting for non-stationary variables in the labor migration equation, direct government payments were found to have a negative and significant effect on labor migration from agriculture. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Farm Labor; Government Payments; Time Series; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56426 |
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