Economics of Food Price Volatility

There has been an increase in food price instability in recent years, with varied consequences for farmers, market participants, and consumers. Does financial speculation affect food price volatility? This book address this and other questions.

About the author

Jean-Paul Chavas is the Anderson-Bascom Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the board of directors of the NBER. David Hummels is professor of economics in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University and a research associate of the NBER. Brian D. Wright is professor in and chair of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

There has been an increase in food price instability in recent years, with varied consequences for farmers, market participants, and consumers. Does financial speculation affect food price volatility? This book address this and other questions.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Paul Chavas, Jean-Paul Hummels Chavas
• Assisted by: Jean-Paul Chavas (Editor), Chavas Jean-Paul (Editor), David Hummels (Editor), Hummels David (Editor), Brian Wright (Editor), Brian D. Wright (Editor), Wright Brian D. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2014
• EAN: 9780226128924
• ISBN: 978-0-226-12892-4
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report; National Bureau of Economic Re; National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report; (NBER) National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Reports (CHUP); (NBER) National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Reports
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Agrarwirtschaft und primärer Sektor, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agricultural and rural economics