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Lihong Lu McPhail
Researcher at United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Publications - 36
Citations - 677
Lihong Lu McPhail is an academic researcher from United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The author has contributed to research in topics: Volatility (finance) & Supply shock. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 35 publications receiving 627 citations. Previous affiliations of Lihong Lu McPhail include United States Department of Agriculture.
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Disentangling Corn Price Volatility: The Role of Global Demand, Speculation, and Energy
TL;DR: In this paper, a structural vector auto-regression model is developed and variance decomposition is applied to measure the contribution of each factor in explaining corn price variation, finding that speculation is important, but only in the short run.
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Inside the Black Box: the Price Linkage and Transmission between Energy and Agricultural Markets
Xiaodong Du,Lihong Lu McPhail +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a structural VAR (SVAR) model is estimated on two subsamples, one before and one after the identified change point, using the method of identification through heteroscedasticity, exploiting the time-varying price volatilities to fully identify the SVAR model.
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Assessing the impact of US ethanol on fossil fuel markets: A structural VAR approach ☆
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a joint structural vector auto-regression model of the global crude oil, US gasoline, and US ethanol markets to examine whether the US ethanol market has had any impact on global oil markets.
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Impact of US Biofuel Policy on US Corn and Gasoline Price Variability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how U.S. ethanol policies such as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) mandates and the blend wall affect the price variability of corn and gasoline.
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Impact of US biofuel policy on US corn and gasoline price variability
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how U.S. ethanol policies such as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) mandates and the blend wall affect the price variability of corn and gasoline.