Search Results - subject:"buffer"

Trade, Competition, and the Pricing of Commodities

Evenett, Simon; Jenny, FrÃ Â©dÃ Â©ric; Evenett, Simon - 2012

Intro -- About the Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Simon J Evenett and Frédéric Jenny -- 2 Commodity Prices, Government Policies and Competition -- Steve McCorriston -- 3 Price Formation and Price Trends in Exhaustible Resource Markets -- Marian Radetzki -- 4 Price Effects of...

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Global Uncertainty and the Volatility of Agricultural Commodities Prices.

Munier, B.R - 2012

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...

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Competition and Commodity Price Volatility : Key findings, summary and notes

OECD - 2012

The OECD Global Forum on Competition debated “Competition and Commodity Price Volatility” in February 2012. This document includes an executive summary of that debate and the documents from the meeting: a background note by the OECD Secretariat, contributions, and written submissions from:...

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The impact of China on global commodity prices : the global reshaping of the resource sector

Farooki, Masuma - 2012

1. Back to centre-stage -- 2. A new driver in the global economy -- 3. Commodities and economic growth -- 4. China as a driver of demand for commodities -- 5. A lagged supply response and the impact on commodity prices -- 6. The financialisation of the commodities sectors -- 7. How are...

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Commodity prices, trade, and poverty in Uruguay

Estrades, Carmen; Terra, María Inés - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 37 (2012) 1, pp. 58-66

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Commodity windfalls, democracy and external debt

Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 122 (2012) 561, pp. 848-866

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Theoretical foundations of buffer stock saving

Carroll, Christopher D. - 2004

Buffer-stock versions of the dynamic stochastic optimizing model of saving are now standard in the consumption … literature. This paper builds theoretical foundations for rigorous understanding of the main characteristics of buffer stock … aggregate income growth in a small open economy populated by buffer stock consumers. …

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ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE IN U.S. AGRICULTURAL POLICY: PAST PERFORMANCE AND FUTURE POTENTIAL

Claassen, Roger; Breneman, Vincent E.; Bucholtz, Shawn; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2004

Since 1985, U.S. agricultural producers have been required to practice soil conservation on highly erodible cropland and conserve wetlands as a condition of farm program eligibility. This report discusses the general characteristics of compliance incentives, evaluates their effectiveness in...

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Human capital and international portfolio choice

Julliard, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

holdings. Calibrating this buffer-stock saving model to match both microeconomic and macroeconomic U.S. labor income data, I …

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THE IRRATIONAL LAND USE IN CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE, EU AND OTHER CONTINENTS - AN OBSTACLE IGNORED BY NOBEL LAUREATE T. W. SCHULTZ AND NOMINEE A. O. HIRSCHMAN

Zhou, Jian-Ming - Agecon Search - 2004

: Engine of change or social buffer?” 4 – 6 November 2004, Halle (Saale), Germany …

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