Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries

Understanding the sources of domestic food price volatility in developing countries and the extent to which it is transmitted from international to domestic markets is critical to help design better global, regional, and domestic policies to cope with excessive food price volatility and to protect t...

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Autores principales: Ceballos, Francisco, Hernandez, Manuel A., Minot, Nicholas, Robles, Miguel
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149485
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author Ceballos, Francisco
Hernandez, Manuel A.
Minot, Nicholas
Robles, Miguel
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Minot, Nicholas
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Robles, Miguel
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description Understanding the sources of domestic food price volatility in developing countries and the extent to which it is transmitted from international to domestic markets is critical to help design better global, regional, and domestic policies to cope with excessive food price volatility and to protect the most vulnerable groups. This paper examines price and volatility transmission from major grain commodities to 41 domestic food products across 27 countries in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. We follow a multivariate GARCH approach to model the dynamics of monthly price volatility in international and domestic markets. The period of analysis is 2000 through 2013. In terms of price transmission in levels, we only observe lead-lag relationships from international to domestic markets in few cases. To calculate volatility spillovers, we simulate a shock equivalent to a 1% increase in the conditional volatility of prices in the international market and evaluate its effect on the conditional volatility of prices in the domestic market. The transmission of price volatility is statistically significant in just one-quarter of the maize markets tested, almost half of rice markets tested, and all wheat markets tested. Volatility transmission seems to be more common when trade (imports or exports) are large relatively to domestic requirements.
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spelling CGSpace1494852025-02-24T06:47:17Z Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries Ceballos, Francisco Hernandez, Manuel A. Minot, Nicholas Robles, Miguel price transmission markets price volatility grain domestic markets prices Understanding the sources of domestic food price volatility in developing countries and the extent to which it is transmitted from international to domestic markets is critical to help design better global, regional, and domestic policies to cope with excessive food price volatility and to protect the most vulnerable groups. This paper examines price and volatility transmission from major grain commodities to 41 domestic food products across 27 countries in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. We follow a multivariate GARCH approach to model the dynamics of monthly price volatility in international and domestic markets. The period of analysis is 2000 through 2013. In terms of price transmission in levels, we only observe lead-lag relationships from international to domestic markets in few cases. To calculate volatility spillovers, we simulate a shock equivalent to a 1% increase in the conditional volatility of prices in the international market and evaluate its effect on the conditional volatility of prices in the domestic market. The transmission of price volatility is statistically significant in just one-quarter of the maize markets tested, almost half of rice markets tested, and all wheat markets tested. Volatility transmission seems to be more common when trade (imports or exports) are large relatively to domestic requirements. 2015-06-11 2024-08-01T02:49:26Z 2024-08-01T02:49:26Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149485 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.015 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149486 Open Access Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Ceballos, Francisco; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Minot, Nicholas; and Robles, Miguel. 2015. Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries. Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the 2015 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association & Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 26-28, 2015. Milwaukee, WI, USA: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). https://purl.umn.edu/206057
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price volatility
grain
domestic markets
prices
Ceballos, Francisco
Hernandez, Manuel A.
Minot, Nicholas
Robles, Miguel
Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries
title Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries
title_full Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries
title_fullStr Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries
title_full_unstemmed Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries
title_short Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries
title_sort grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries
topic price transmission
markets
price volatility
grain
domestic markets
prices
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149485
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