Measuring Impacts on Demand of Agricultural Commodity Promotion

The Impacts of Agricultural Liberalization on Commodity Price Distributions: Evidence from Madagascar*

The Potential Impacts of the Biosafety Protocol on Agricultural Commodity Trade

Foreword At its recent plenary meeting, the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC) discussed the issues surrounding the implementation of the Biosafety Protocol (BSP). During that discussion, IPC Members expressed grave concerns that the potential implications for the agricultural trade system, in particular for importing and developing countries, were not well documented ...

Exogenous impacts on the links between energy and agricultural commodity markets

a r t i c l e i n f o The main purpose of this paper is to identify the effects of exogenous factors, which have been somewhat controversial , on the price links between the energy and agricultural commodity markets. Our study differs from other studies by employing multivariate normal mixture models to capture the structural properties of the price dependencies in the underlying states. This p...

Agricultural Commodity Auctions in India

Empirical research on the value of information technology investments in the information systems literature has primarily focused on the use of IT by businesses and multinational firms. The impact of IT on the global agricultural supply chain has largely been ignored in the IS literature. Auctions to buy and sell large volumes of agricultural commodities are widely prevalent in diverse regions ...

On the Impacts of (Commodity) Prices on Households (and Countries)

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...