A Forensic Analysis of the Food Commodity Price Boom of 2008

Harry Gorter, Dusan Drabik and David Just

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Economics of Biofuel Policies, 2015, pp 67-84 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter will contribute to the understanding of how this price spiral happened, which has quickly become one of the most analyzed period of food commodity price movements in history. As Timmer and Dawe (2010, 8) state: No lessons from the food crisis are of much relevance without understanding how this price spiral happened.

Keywords: Rice Price; Price Spike; Perfect Storm; Wheat Price; Biofuel Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137414854_5

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