The Economics of Food Price Volatility Conference
Supported by the US Department of Agriculture
August 15-16, 2012
Seattle, WA
Wednesday, August 15
1

What we really know about food security

Carlo Cafiero, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2

Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries

Christophe Gouel, INRAE
3

The Evolving Relationships Between Agricultural and Energy Commodity Prices: A Shifting-Mean Vector Autoregressive Analysis

Walter Enders, The University of Alabama
Matthew T. Holt, The University of Alabama
4

Influences of Agricultural Technology on the Size and Importance of Food Price Variability

Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis
Will Martin, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Phillip Pardey, University of Minnesota
5

Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty

Kym Anderson, The University of Adelaide
Maros Ivanic, The World Bank
Will Martin, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
6

Identifying Agricultural Demand and Supply Elasticities: Implications for Food Price Volatility

Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER
Michael J. Roberts, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Wolfram Schlenker, Harvard University and NBER
7

Bubble Trouble? Rational Storage, Mean Reversion and Runs in Commodity Prices.

Eugenio Bobenrieth, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley
8

Bubbles, Food Prices, and Speculation: Evidence from the CFTC's Daily Large Trader Data Files

Nicole Aulerich, Cornerstone Research
Scott H. Irwin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Philip Garcia, University of Illinois
9

Biofuels, Binding Constraints and Agricultural Commodity Price Volatility

Philip Abbott, Purdue University