Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 90
Cover Image
The effects of expenditure growth and urbanisation on food consumption in East Asia: a note on animal products
Rae, Allan N. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 18 (1998) 3
of urbanisation was found to make a significant contribution to the functions. The urbanisation elasticities were always … positive, indicating that the process of urbanisation had a positive effect on the demand for animal food products. The … expenditure elasticities were also positive, but often less than they would be if estimated from consumption functions that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069348
Cover Image
Demand for dairy products in Mexico
Tanyeri-Abur, Aysen; Rosson, C. Parr - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 16 (1997) 1
and import demand for dairy products in Mexico to determine price and income elasticities as well as import elasticities …. The results indicate that the demand for fluid milk is the most responsive to price changes and NFDM demand is inelastic … relatively elastic, which suggests the existence of other substitutes for fluid milk. Estimation of import demand equations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879428
Cover Image
The Calculation of returns to research In distorted markets: Comment
Voon, Jan P.; Edwards, Geoff W. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 05 (1991) 1
In a recent article, Oehmke reported that a high internal rate of return for investment in research when the interaction between research and price policy costs was disregarded could become very low or even negative when the effects of research on the costs of price policy were considered. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879432
Cover Image
Cost structure and technical change in rural banking
Obben, James - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 08 (1993) 3
Using the multi-product translog cost function, this paper examines the cost structure and technical change occurring within the novel Ghanaian rural banks. The results of the seemingly unrelated error components model indicate substantial unexploited economies of scale in individual products as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879446
Cover Image
Farm-level nonparametric analysis of cost-minimization and profit-maximization behavior
Featherstone, Allen M.; Moghnieh, Ghassan A.; Goodwin, … - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 13 (1995) 2
This study investigates non-parametrically the optimizing behavior of a sample of 289 Kansas farms under profit-maximization and cost-minimization hypotheses. The study uses both deterministic and stochastic non-parametric tests. The deterministic results do not support strict adherence to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879477
Cover Image
Are piglet prices rational hog price forecasts?
Gjolberg, Ole - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 13 (1995) 2
In this paper a simple model is developed in which the piglet price serves as a forecast for the hog price 3 months ahead. The model is tested on data from Northern Europe, viz. Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland during the period 1982-1992. The empirical results lend strong support to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879508
Cover Image
A proposal for the reduction of domestic price variability during the phase-in period of trade liberalization
Hayes, Dermot J.; Wahl, Thomas I.; Johnson, S.R. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 07 (1992) 1
Countries replacing existing trade barriers with a fixed tariff may find that domestic price variability rises to politically unacceptable levels. This paper shows how the tariff-reduction formula can be modified to delay the transmission of world price variability. The importance of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879510
Cover Image
Impact of the US-EC price war on major wheat exporters' shares of the Chinese market
Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.; Jensen, Paul H. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 10 (1994) 1
China is both the world's largest producer and consumer of wheat. In an attempt to gain a larger slice of the important Chinese market, both the European Community and the United States have offered China subsidised wheat. In addition, other exporters have offered attractive credit arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879519
Cover Image
Impacts of price and exchange rate policies on pesticide use in the Philippines
Tjornhom, Jessica D.; Norton, George W.; Gapud, Victor - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 18 (1998) 2
Pesticide prices can influence producer decisions to apply pesticides as opposed to nonchemical means of pest control. Those prices are in tum influenced by price and exchange rate policies. The effective rate of protection for nine pesticides commonly applied to vegetables in the Philippines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879524
Cover Image
An application of cointegration theory in the estimation of the Almost Ideal Demand system for food consumption in Bulgaria
Balcombe, K.G.; Davis, J.R. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 15 (1996) 1
The Almost Ideal Demand system is applied to consumption in Bulgaria. It is argued that the conventional estimation of … canonical cointegrating regression procedure of Park is applied. It is argued that the results of the Almost Ideal Demand system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879532