Is a public regulation of food price volatility feasible in Africa? An ARCH approach in kenya

Maître d'Hôtel Elodie, Le Cotty Tristan, Jayne Thomas. 2012. Is a public regulation of food price volatility feasible in Africa? An ARCH approach in kenya. In : Price volatility and farm income stabilization. Modelling outcomes and assessing market and policy based responses : 123rd EAAE Seminar, Dublin, Irlande, February 23-24, 2012. EAAE. s.l. : s.n., 1-17. EAAE Seminar. 123, Dublin, Irlande, 23 Février 2012/24 Février 2012.

Résumé : The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy instruments to manage food price volatility. Many developing countries recently pursued price regulation policies, but the difficulties of these policies in promoting price stability is not fully understood. In particular, the ability of a stabilization policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the institutional conditions of its implementation. Kenya is a particularly interesting case as it is characterized by a rather long tradition of public intervention, and by the persistence of highly volatile prices. The consistency of the policy use appears to be key factor influencing the degree of price volatility. Applied to trade policies, this consistency is defined by the temporal relationship between the tariff level and the international price changes. To test the influence of policy consistency on price volatility, we develop an autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic model of price determination in which prices and prices volatility are jointly estimated, using monthly data over the 1994-2009 period in Kenya.

Classification Agris : E70 - Commerce, commercialisation et distribution
E10 - Économie et politique agricoles

Auteurs et affiliations

• Maître d'Hôtel Elodie, CIRAD-ES-UMR MOISA (FRA)
• Le Cotty Tristan, CIRAD-ES-UMR CIRED (FRA)
• Jayne Thomas

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