Download This PaperSpeculation on Agricultural Commodities: A Brief Overview
29 Pages Posted: 1 Oct 2013
Date Written: September 29, 2013
Abstract
This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a survey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion of political measures that are appropriate for im-proving global food security. The arguments are supported by numerous graphs.
Keywords: speculation, futures market, hunger, food security, index funds
JEL Classification: D84, G12, G13, G14, Q13, Q18
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Pies, Ingo and Prehn, Sören and Glauben, Thomas and Will, Matthias Georg, Speculation on Agricultural Commodities: A Brief Overview (September 29, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2333087 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2333087
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