Higher frequency and intensity of extreme weather events strengthen the need for integrated risk management. EU Regulation No. 1305/2013 allows subsidies for insurance instruments, for mutual funds compensating production losses, and for mutual funds to compensate for income losses. The EU...

www.ifama.org

This paper proposes an original work on world wheat futures market efficiency test to conclude on the semi-strong inefficiency of wheat futures. Our model uses american and european data together to estimate pair trading arbitrage returns on the wheat futures market. Some variables like...

Purpose The role that speculation in futures markets plays during food price spikes is a subject of lively dispute. This issue is often addressed with empirical analyses. They suffer from data limitations and focus on the short-term impacts. The paper aims to discuss these issues....