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South African Riots: Repercussion of the Global Food Crisis and US Drought
Yavni Bar-Yam, Marco Lagi, Yaneer Bar-Yam
High and volatile global food prices have led to food riots and played a critical role in triggering the Arab Spring revolutions in recent years. The severe drought in the US in th…
UPDATE July 2012 | The Food Crises: The US Drought
Marco Lagi, Yavni Bar-Yam, Yaneer Bar-Yam
Recent droughts in the midwestern United States threaten to cause global catastrophe driven by a speculator amplified food price bubble. Here we show the effect of speculators on f…
The European debt crisis: Defaults and market equilibrium
Marco Lagi, Yaneer Bar-Yam
During the last two years, Europe has been facing a debt crisis, and Greece has been at its center. In response to the crisis, drastic actions have been taken, including the halvin…
UPDATE February 2012 - The Food Crises: Predictive validation of a quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion
Marco Lagi, Yavni Bar-Yam, Karla Z. Bertrand +1
Increases in global food prices have led to widespread hunger and social unrest---and an imperative to understand their causes. In a previous paper published in September 2011, we…
Evidence of market manipulation in the financial crisis
Vedant Misra, Marco Lagi, Yaneer Bar-Yam
We provide direct evidence of market manipulation at the beginning of the financial crisis in November 2007. The type of manipulation, a "bear raid," would have been prevented by a…
The Food Crises: A quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion
Marco Lagi, Yavni Bar-Yam, Karla Z. Bertrand +1
Recent increases in basic food prices are severely impacting vulnerable populations worldwide. Proposed causes such as shortages of grain due to adverse weather, increasing meat co…