玉米价格决定着肉食价格

由于美国中西部地区的洪涝灾害天气对玉米的播种面积和单产造成影响,芝加哥商品交易所的玉米期货连创新高,并带领大豆、小麦等品种集体上涨。在能源价格高位盘整之际,玉米的领涨使得振荡两个多月的农产品期货再度成为市场关注焦点。由于美国产区天气糟糕、美国玉米库存降至历史低     

早籼稻期货形成稻谷“中国价格”

经中国证监会批准,早籼稻期货合约4月20日在郑州商品交易所上市交易。早籼稻期货适合与相关品种之间和期、现货之间的套利交易,本身也是一个较好的投资品种。早籼稻期货交易这一新产品填补了我国大宗粮食品种没有稻谷期货交易的空白,我国因此成为世界上第五个上市稻谷类期货的国家。     

农产品政策如何影响国际市场对国内期货市场的价格传递效应——以棉花和豆类产品的收储及补贴政策为例

文章以棉花、大豆、豆粕和豆油四种农产品期货品种为例,分析了国家收储及补贴政策变动如何影响国际市场对国内期货市场的价格传递效应。研究结果显示,收储政策通过价格托市的方式直接降低了棉花和大豆国际市场的价格传递效应。虽然棉花在收储政策转向补贴政策后国际市场的影响力有所增强,符合理论预期,但大豆国际市场的传递效应反而进一步下降,这可能是由于近年来我国大豆市场的结构性变化所致。由于豆油和豆粕的产品特点差异,大豆的收储及补贴政策对豆粕产生了政策外溢效应,降低了国际市场的影响力,但同时期豆油国际市场的影响却得到了强化。因此,农产品政策变化对国际市场价格传递效应的影响程度与期货品种特点有密切关系。     

农产品政策如何影响国际市场对国内期货市场的价格传递效应——以棉花和豆类产品的收储及补贴政策为例

文章以棉花、大豆、豆粕和豆油四种农产品期货品种为例,分析了国家收储及补贴政策变动如何影响国际市场对国内期货市场的价格传递效应。研究结果显示,收储政策通过价格"托市"的方式直接降低了棉花和大豆国际市场的价格传递效应。虽然棉花在收储政策转向补贴政策后国际市场的影响力有所增强,符合理论预期,但大豆国际市场的传递效应反而进一步下降,这可能是由于近年来我国大豆市场的结构性变化所致。由于豆油和豆粕的产品特点差异,大豆的收储及补贴政策对豆粕产生了政策外溢效应,降低了国际市场的影响力,但同时期豆油国际市场的影响却得到了强化。因此,农产品政策变化对国际市场价格传递效应的影响程度与期货品种特点有密切关系。     

Pump Prices and Oil Prices: A Tale of Two Directions

It has been argued that retail gasoline prices adjust more quickly to crude oil price increases than to price decreases. We investigate this issue using the statewide data on weekly retail gasoline prices in the United States between January 2000 and June 2007. Our analysis does not confirm the prediction that gasoline prices adjust more quickly to price increases in crude oil prices. On the contrary, the results suggest that in some geographic areas gasoline prices could change faster when crude oil prices decrease. These findings suggest that a national or a one size fits all energy policy for the United States may be misguided.

Prices and industrial transformation

Abstract

One of the contradictions of neo-classical economic theory concerns its view of relative prices. On the one hand it is relative prices that determine the market's equilibrium position and decide what transactions will take place. On the other hand, the pattern of relative prices, or expressed differently the price structure, has been regarded as more or less immutable. Variations in relative prices have been considered short-term phenomena, after which, in time, an adaptation has taken place which has restored the initial situation. The same line of thought was also held by Wesley Mitchell, who in the dispersion of relative prices found a reflection of business cycles, but he maintained that the price system is “yet stable in the essential balance of its interrelations”.¹ F.C. Mills cited Mitchell as his authority in his comprehensive work The Behavior of Prices, and although he felt compelled to raise objections to the inference that relative prices varied rhythmically with the business cycle, he still considered that there was a limit to change in relative prices, i.e. the price structure had a fundamental stability.²     

房价盛世危言

搜索中国所有的商品与要素市场,几乎没有哪一个市场能像房地产市场那样残酷而贪婪地吞噬着百姓手中可怜的剩余资本,而在政府企图规制与诱导的目标市场中,更没有哪一个市场能像房地产市场那样令决策层感到心力憔悴.在一轮又一轮房价涨停行情的肉博之中,完全丧失话语权和谈判能力的消费者经历了一次又一次的利益流失的痛苦折磨,而宏观调控工具与手段也随之可能被历练得更加刚毅与成熟.     

Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Consumer Prices: The Increasing Role of Energy Prices

Open Economies Review - A number of researchers have found that the rate of exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to domestic prices has declined substantially over the last few decades. We revisit...     

也说消费价格指数与房价

有分析人士认为，目前居民消费价格指数CPI的上涨幅度被低估，其原因是未将商品住宅价格指数纳入统计范围。本文认为，根据国际惯例编制的CPI已考虑了居民的居住消费，不将商品住宅价格指数纳入，是因其具有投资性质和金融资产性质；也可避免CPI因商品住宅价格的波动而出现的大幅波动，有利于客观分析和判断宏观经济的主要指标。     

股票价格波动问题探究

股票市场是国民经济的晴雨表,股票价格波动是股票市场的基本特征之一,它受到多种因素的影响。股票价格波动合理直接关系到我国社会主义市场经济的正常发展。文章基于对股票价格的研究,主要介绍了影响股票价格波动的多种因素、股票价格的波动机理和股票价格的运动模型。     

Responding to High Commodity Prices

The recent commodity price boom resulted from rising demand in the face of a long period of low supply growth and market distortions. Structural factors are expected to return international commodity prices to relatively high levels as the global economy recovers. The Asian and Pacific economies and the region's poor will be among the most exposed to a rebound in prices. The recent response to high commodity prices can be improved upon. At the global level, the priority for Asian and Pacific governments is to seek a commitment to lessening distortions favouring bio-fuels. At the regional level, there is a need to address the use of trade restrictions on food commodities in Asia, notably rice. At a national level, the long-term neglect of the rural economy warrants correction; and efforts to expand and make social safety nets more 'market friendly' are called for.