Assessing the effect of oil price on world food prices: Application of principal component analysis

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1022-1025

  Esmaeili, Abdoulkarim ^a   Shokoohi, Zainab ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Food price; Oil price; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMON FACTORS; CONSUMER PRICE INDEX; CONSUMER PRICES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRUDE OIL PRICES; FOOD PRICES; FOOD PRODUCTION; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MACROECONOMIC INDICES; MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES; OIL PRICES; OPTIMAL NUMBER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROPORTION OF VARIANCE;

COSTS; CRUDE OIL; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

COMMODITY PRICE; CRUDE OIL; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FOOD SUPPLY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; MACROECONOMICS; OIL SUPPLY; PRICE DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78650418772     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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