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This paper studies the role of speculators in explaining agricultural commodity price movements. The spikes in global agricultural commodity prices in 2007-2008 and 2010 2011 have opened a debate on the contribution of speculation to recent food price volatility. Most academic literature does...
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The paper presents changes in the international oilseeds market during the period of genetically modified varieties dissemination. Despite differing countries’ regulations the international oilseeds market grew rapidly. There was found weakening causal relationships between European oilseed...
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The aim of the paper was to analyse spatial price transmission in the wheat market in Poland and Germany. The analysis was conducted with the use of weekly milling and feed wheat price series and cointegration framework. The results confirm high linkage between prices in Poland and Germany as...
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The article presents the changes in the foreign trade in sugar, sales quota and non-quota sugar and the quota sugar sales prices during 2004-2012 in Poland. The reform of the sugar market in the European Union in 2006 led to a significant deterioration in the balance of Polish foreign trade in...
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Relative cross-country price volatility increases business risk and distorts efficient sector-level investment allocation. In order to answer the questions of “if” and “how” market structures affect relative price volatility, and using annual data from 14 manufacturing branches in 27 EU...
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The growing number of regional trade agreements is a characteristic feature of contemporary international trade relations. The developing countries are more and more involved in this process. Creating groups is associated with changes in the direction of trade flows. The main objective of the...
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The article presents information concerning changes undergoing on the world market of fresh apples between 1961-2010. The Author shows changes in production, consumption, foreign trade and prices, account taken of geographical distribution of the main stakeholders (producers, consumers,...
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Price linkages between the Polish and foreign markets of grains and pork were investigated in the paper. The analysis indicates a decrease in price differences between the Polish and the EU markets and their increase between the Polish and the US markets. Causality tests and VAR models indicate...
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The paper presents an estimation of the Polish food industry's attractiveness and the implications of competition strategy. Special attention was paid to the choice of marketing strategy options for big and small companies. For typology marketing strategy a new methodological approach,...
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The paper presents the concept of econometric models for predicting the level of prices of raw milk in New Zealand, based on the prices of SMP, butter and cheddar cheese, as the products strongly correlated with the prices of raw milk. The article also states that the prices of basic products...
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