How to Understand High Food Prices
用资本资产定价模型和格兰杰因果分析，发现1971年以来粮价上涨主要由需求增长、货币扩张和汇率变动等宏观因素驱动，而非供给冲击或生物燃料需求。
Abstract Agricultural price booms are better explained by common factors than by market‐specific factors such as supply shocks. A capital asset pricing model‐type model shows why one should expect this and Granger causality analysis establishes the role of demand growth, monetary expansion and exchange rate movements in explaining price movements over the period since 1971. The demand for grains and oilseeds as biofuel feedstocks has been cited as the main cause of the price rise, but there is little direct evidence for this contention. Instead, index‐based investment in agricultural futures markets is seen as the major channel through which macroeconomic and monetary factors generated the 2007–2008 food price rises.