I derive and test predictions from the classic Mussa and Rosen (1978) second-degree price discrimination model using … data from the United States clothes washer market. I find evidence consistent with price discrimination in the market … efficiency and ENERGY STAR standards, within-model clothes washer prices dropped on average. The heterogeneous pattern of price …

.S. Department of Agriculture to resume publishing cotton price forecasts for the first time in 79 years. In addition, systematic … of price relationships. This study concluded that a structural break in the U.S. cotton industry occurred in 1999, and … also continues to be an important factor in price determination. The model developed here forecasts changes in the U …

-cyclical payment (R-CCP) that is offered as an alternative in the 2007 House "Farm Bill" (H.R. 2419) to the current price-based CCP (P … payments to changes in expected price levels. A mean-variance utility function approach is used to assess producer preferences …

This paper looks at the relationship between weather, crop yield, and market price of muscadines using a dynamic panel … estimate the impact of weather on the price of muscadines with the yield per acre as the instrumented variable. The results … suggest that there is a relationship between the price and weather for muscadines, which provide important implications for …

Analysts often use a single average or otherwise aggregated price series to represent several geographic or product … circumstances, such as when only long-term relationships hold among price series or when homogeneous but relatively perishable …