“…The present literature on long memory can be found in various areas including stock market returns (Andersen et al, 2003;Caporale, Gil-Alana, & Plastun, 2017;Christensen et al, 2007;Hiremath & Kamaiah, 2010;Onour, 2010); currency exchange returns (Andersen & Bollerslev, 1997;Jayasinghe et al, 2014); real estate market returns (Wilson & Okunev, 1999;Stevenson, 2002) and futures market returns (Barkoulas et al, 1997;Kang et al, 2009), whereas limited work has been done in the area of agricultural commodities (Hyun-Joung, 2008;Mann et al, 2012). One of the primary motivations for this study is to better understand recent increases in world food price volatilities, especially wheat.…”