The objective of this paper is to examine how the likely growth in the ethanol industryover the next decade will impact U.S. labor markets, especially migrant crop labor, which is largelyimmigrant labor. To build the background for making projections for 2008-2010 and beyond, thepaper reviews...

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between monthly energy and agriculture price indices. The research uses the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) methods, taking into account the cointegrating relationship among the series monthly observation from October 1973 to...

In this paper we investigate price and volatility risk originating in linkages between energy and agricultural commodity prices in Germany and study their dynamics over time. We propose an econometric approach to quantify the volatility and correlation risk structure, which has a large impact...