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Market integration for agricultural output markets in Peru: the role of public infrastructure

Escobal, Javier; Vásquez, Arturo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper shows the impact that investment in infrastructure may have on the efficiency of agricultural products … show that there is short term disequilibria that affect the efficiency with which price information is transmitted across … efficiency between markets. However, other elements susceptible of government intervention, such as availability of information …

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Market Power in International Commodity Processing Chains: Preliminary Results from the Coffee Market

Shepherd, Ben - EconWPA - 2005

Vector autoregressions are used to model price transmission through the coffee processing chain, from producers to the world market and from the world market to consumers. A comparison is made of price dynamics against a backdrop of two very different market structures: pre-1989, producers...

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Price Flexibility in Channels of Distribution: Evidence from Scanner Data

Dutta, Shantanu; Bergen, Mark; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004

In this study, we empirically examine the extent of price rigidity using a unique store-level time series data set - consisting of (i) actual retail transaction prices, (ii) actual wholesale transaction prices which represent both the retailers' costs and the prices received by manufacturers,...

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Did Producer Hedging Opportunities in the Live Hog Contract Decline?

Zanini, Fabio C.; Garcia, Philip - EconWPA - 1997

The paper assesses the usefulness of selective hedging strategies when combined with forecast techniques in the live hog contract. The use of routine futures and options hedging is not attractive relative to a cash-only strategy. However, forecasting and hedging can contribute to price risk...

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Market Information and Price Instability : An Insight into Vegetable Markets in Senegal

David-Benz, Hélène; Wade, Idrissa; Egg, Johny - EconWPA - 2005

Market gardening has been increasing fast in Senegal. But farmers face high marketing risks: daily price fluctuations exceed an average 20% for some products, seasonality is strong, anticipation based on prices leads to cyclic movements. Farmers and market operators have found various forms of...

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The feasibility of an international tropical plywood futures contract

Rutten, Lamon - EconWPA - 2003

This paper explores the potential for futures contracts in tropical (hardwood) plywood, one of the few major internationally traded commodities for which there is no yet a futures market. Commodity characteristics and market structures and practices that have an impact on the feasibility of a...

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Holiday Price Rigidity and Cost of Price Adjustment

Levy, Daniel; Muller, Georg; Dutta, Shantanu; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2004

Using unique retail and wholesale price data for 4,532 products carried by a major Midwestern grocery retailer, we find evidence of significant retail price rigidity during the Thanksgiving through Christmas holiday period relative to the rest of the year. We suggest that this pattern of holiday...

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Optimal Hedging Strategies for the U.S. Cattle Feeder

Noussinov, Mikhail A.; Leuthold, Raymond M. - EconWPA - 1998

Multiproduct optimal hedging is compared to alternative hedging strategies as applied to a Midwestern cattle feeder. One-period feeding margin hedge ratios are estimated using weekly cash and futures price data from a simulation of a custom feedlot for 1983-1995. Hedge ratios are estimated using...

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Market Efficiency and Marketing to Enhance Income of Crop Producers

Zulauf, Carl R.; Irwin, Scott H. - EconWPA - 1997

's model of market efficiency in which individuals who consistently earn trading returns have superior access to information or …

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Estimation of Time-Varying Hedge Ratios for Corn and Soybeans: BGARCH and Random Coefficient Approaches

Bera, Anil K.; Garcia, Philip; Roh, Jae-Sun - EconWPA - 1997

This paper deals with the estimation of optimal hedge ratios. A number of recent papers have demonstrated that the ordinary least squares (OLS) method which gives constant hedge ratio is inappropriate and recommended the use of bivariate autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (BGARCH) model....

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