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 this volatility 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...

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Main Authors: Ceballos, Francisco, Hernandez, Manuel A., Minot, Nicholas, Robles, Miguel
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149486
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author Ceballos, Francisco
Hernandez, Manuel A.
Minot, Nicholas
Robles, Miguel
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description Understanding the sources of domestic food price volatility in developing countries and the extent to which this volatility 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 generalized auto-regressive conditional heteroskedasticity 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 observe only lead-lag relationships from international to domestic markets in few cases. To calculate volatility spillovers, we simulate a shock equivalent to a 1 percent 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) is large relative to domestic requirements.
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spelling CGSpace1494862025-11-06T06:08:16Z Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries Ceballos, Francisco Hernandez, Manuel A. Minot, Nicholas Robles, Miguel models price transmission commodities markets price volatility grain domestic markets prices Understanding the sources of domestic food price volatility in developing countries and the extent to which this volatility 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 generalized auto-regressive conditional heteroskedasticity 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 observe only lead-lag relationships from international to domestic markets in few cases. To calculate volatility spillovers, we simulate a shock equivalent to a 1 percent 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) is large relative to domestic requirements. 2015-10-22 2024-08-01T02:49:26Z 2024-08-01T02:49:26Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149486 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153490 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154137 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149816 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154499 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298415 http://purl.umn.edu/206057 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.015 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ceballos, Francisco; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Minot, Nicholas; and Robles, Miguel. 2015. Grain price and volatility transmission from international to domestic markets in developing countries. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1472. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149486
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price transmission
commodities
markets
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 models
price transmission
commodities
markets
price volatility
grain
domestic markets
prices
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149486
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