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What drives food price volatility? Evidence based on a generalized VAR approach applied to the food, financial and energy markets

The aim of this study is to investigate sources of food prices volatility. The analysis uses daily series for volatility of corn, soybean, wheat, rice, US dollar, crude oil, and SP500 futures spanning the period January 4, 2000 to April 1, 2017. The authors employ the generalized vector autoregressive framework in rolling sample approach in order to capture the time-varying nature of volatility spillovers. The results reveal that: volatility spillovers measures change over time; most of the volatility spillovers are observed within the two groups of markets: food markets and 'non-food' markets; corn market is net volatility transmitter.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Economics Discussion Papers ; No. 2018-55

Classification
Wirtschaft
Agriculture in International Trade
International Financial Markets
Financial Econometrics
Subject
volatility spillovers
food markets
financial and energy markets
generalized VAR
lasso estimation

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Śmiech, Sławomir
Papież, Monika
Dąbrowski, Marek A.
Fijorek, Kamil
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(where)
Kiel
(when)
2018

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Śmiech, Sławomir
  • Papież, Monika
  • Dąbrowski, Marek A.
  • Fijorek, Kamil
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Time of origin

  • 2018

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