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National
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The
Economics of Food Price Volatility Conference** |
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Jean-Paul
Chavas, David Hummels,
Brian Wright, organizers |
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Hotel
Monaco, Seattle Washington |
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August
15 and 16, 2012 |
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Wednesday
August 15, 2012 |
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7:45-8:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:30-9:30 |
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Josef Schmidhuber
and Carlo Cafiero, FAO |
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Discussant: Ethan Ligon,
University of California, Berkeley |
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9:30-10:30 |
Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in
Developing Countries |
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Christophe Gouel, The World Bank |
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Discussant: Shenggen
Fan, IFPRI |
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10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Coping with Food Price Volatility:
Trade Insulation as Social Protection |
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Quy-Toan Do and Martin Ravallion, The World
Bank |
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Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan
and NBER |
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Discussant: Ron Trostle,
USDA
Economic Research Service |
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 -2:30 |
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Kym Anderson, University of Adelaide |
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Maros Ivanic, and Will Martin, The World
Bank |
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Discussant: Marc Bellemare,
Duke University |
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2:30 -3:30 |
Identifying Agricultural Demand and Supply
Elasticities: Implications For Food Price
Volatility |
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Steven Berry, Yale University and NBER |
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Wolfram Schlenker,
Columbia University and NBER |
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Discussant: Derek Headey,
IFPRI |
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3:30-4:00 |
Break |
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4:00-5:00 |
Influences of Agricultural Technology on the
Size and Importance |
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Julian M. Alston, University of California,
Davis |
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William
J. Martin, The World Bank |
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Philip G. Pardey, University of Minnesota |
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Discussant: James MacDonald, USDA Economic Research Service |
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6:30 |
Reception and Dinner |
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Thursday
August 16, 2012 |
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7:45-8:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:30-9:30 |
Bubble Trouble? Rational Storage, Mean Reversion
and Runs in Commodity Prices |
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Eugenio Bobenrieth, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile and |
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Juan
R.A. Bobenrieth, Universidad del Bío-Bío |
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Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley. |
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Discussant: Jock Anderson, The World Bank |
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9:30-10:30 |
Bubbles, Food Prices, and Speculation:
Evidence from the CFTCs Daily |
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Scott H. Irwin and Philip Garcia,
University of Illinois |
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Nicole
M. Aulerich, Cornerstone Research |
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Discussant: Aaron Smith, University of
California, Davis |
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10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
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Walter Enders and Matthew T. Holt,
University of Alabama |
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Discussant: Barry Goodwin, North Carolina
State University |
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12:00-1:00 |
Biofuels, Binding Constraints and
Agricultural Commodity Price Volatility |
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Philip Abbott, Purdue University |
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Discussant: Brian Wright, University of
California, Berkeley |
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1:00-2:30 |
Lunch and Round Table Discussion: |
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The
Economics of Food Price Volatility:
Future Issues and Research |
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2:30 |
Adjourn. |
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** This conference was jointly organized
under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and supported by a grant from
the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, ERS-USDA.