Understanding the determinants of price volatility is a key step to prevent potential negative
consequences of to the uncertainty faced by farmers. Our critical provides a novel …

Computational methods are required to solve problems without closed-form solutions in
environmental and resource economics. Efficiency, stability, and accuracy are key elements …

A farmer's decision to adopt sustainable land management practices often takes place in a
changing context. In the Northeast Region of Thailand, rural areas face a deagrarianization …

Several drivers may generate market instability, but the partial contribution of different factors
is still debated. We investigate how market-based drivers influence the global price volatility …

Spot prices or front-month futures prices for energy commodities can exhibit occasional
sharp peaks and drops (even to negative values), accompanied by large backwardations or …

We present a method to estimate jointly the parameters of a standard commodity storage
model and the parameters characterizing the trend in commodity prices. This procedure …

Human societies rely on food reserves and the importation of agricultural goods as means to
cope with crop failures and associated food shortage. While food trade has been the subject …

The dynamics of consumption and stocks are crucial for analysis of commodity prices and
policies. But empirical application of the standard storage model has been derailed by …

This paper investigates the implications of bounded speculative storage, storage bounded
from below at zero and above at a capacity, on commodity prices. Binding capacity mirrors …

We investigate empirically the main factors related to coffee and sugar (“softs”) price
uncertainty. We link physical market fundamentals as well as financial variables to (i) market …