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Measurement of the impact of buffer stock intervention on food security of smallholder farmers in Ghana by means of the nutrient-content household dietary diversity index

Abokyi, Emmanuel; Asiedu, Kofi Fred - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-22

Buffer stock intervention is a hedging policy against income losses due to price fluctuations, primarily from farming … activities, notably the production of cereals. This paper investigates the impact of buffer stock intervention on smallholder … negative impact of children under five years. The most important finding is that participation in the buffer stock operations …

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Is There a Non-Linear Effect of Commodity Price Volatility on the Financial Stability of Sub-Saharan African Countries?

HOUNGBEDJI, Honoré - 2023

This paper determines the threshold at which commodity price volatility generates an adverse effect on the stability of the financial sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study is conducted on 24 countries over the period 2002–2021, using a dynamic panel model with threshold effects and the...

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In Search of a Low-Frequency Trend in Energy Commodity Prices

Diaz-Rodriguez, Fernanda - 2023

We estimate the long-term component of commodity prices while determining the optimal data frequency for that purpose. We use futures prices of three energy commodities observed at four frequencies from the 1980s to 2021 and apply five methodologies ranging from detrending and moving averages to...

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Commodity Prices and the US Dollar

Rees, Daniel M. - 2023

In the aftermath of the Covid pandemic rising commodity prices went hand-in-hand with a strengthening US dollar. This was a sharp contrast to the usual relationship between commodity prices and the dollar. This paper presents evidence that post-Covid correlation patterns could become more common...

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Agricultural Commodity Prices, Governance, and Land Supply in the Tropics

Miranda Arana, A. Javier; Börner, Jan - 2023

Sustainable use of land resources is at the core of the bioeconomy, and it is of central importance for development in the coming decades. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals reflect this aspect of development both directly and indirectly. Important global trends, such as a growing...

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Shocks to Occupational Pensions and Household Savings

Caloia, Francesco; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Simonetti, Irene - 2023

This paper studies the saving response of households to shocks in the capital position of their pension fund. Using survey panel data matched to supervisory data of Dutch occupational pension funds for a period that involved three major economic crises, we provide evidence of an increase in...

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Aggregate precautionary savings motives

Mabille, Pierre - 2023 - Revised version of 2022/56/FIN

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Evaluating the effectiveness of modern forecasting models in predicting commodity futures prices in volatile economic times

Vancsura, László; Tatay, Tibor; Bareith, Tibor - In: Risks : open access journal 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-16

The paper seeks to answer the question of how price forecasting can contribute to which techniques gives the most accurate results in the futures commodity market. A total of two families of models (decision trees, artificial intelligence) were used to produce estimates for 2018 and 2022 for 21-...

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External commodity shocks and the insulating role of fiscal policy on real output : evidence from a commodity-exporting economy

Pontines, Victor; Luvsannyam, Davaajargal - 2023

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Agricultural commodity price dynamics: evidence from BVAR models

Bondarenko, Olga - 2023

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