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Modelling the impacts of trade on employment and development: A structuralist CGE-model for the analysis of TTIP and other trade agreements
In recent years, a number of studies have been put forth to assess the potential economic effects of the EU-US trade agreement – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Most studies report gains for the TTIP-member states. However, the commonly applied CGE models contain questionable assumptions such as full employment. In this report, we present a structuralist CGE-model for [...]
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Financialization and Global Commodity Chains: Distributional Implications for Cotton in Sub-Saharan Africa
Restructuring of global and local markets has led to an increased influence of commodity derivatives markets on commodity price setting. This has critical implications for price risks experienced by actors along commodity chains. Commodity derivatives markets have undergone significant changes that have been referred to as the ‘financialization of commodities’, which we define as an increase in [...]
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The Financialization of Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton Value Chains: The Role of Physical Actors
The prices of cash crops impact the livelihoods of millions of households in developing countries. While the influence of speculators on global commodity prices determined through derivatives exchanges is extensively dis-cussed, the contribution of hedgers to short-term changes in futures prices has largely been disregarded in the financialization of commodities discourse over the past two [...]