Objetivou-se neste estudo analisar alguns aspectos da comercialização e os mecanismos de formação e transmissão de preços, entre os níveis de produtor e atacado, da goiaba (Pisidium guajava), produzida na região Norte Fluminense. Foram estimados: as margens de comercialização do...

O objetivo deste trabalho foi identificar relações causais e estimar elasticidades de transmissão entre preços de soja, farelo e óleo nos mercados interno e externo e entre os preços desses produtos no mercado interno. Para tanto, foram utilizadas seis séries de dados semanais, obtidas a...

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a comercialização e o comportamento dos preços das madeiras serradas, em especial as questões relacionadas à sazonalidade, causalidade e margens de comercialização. Para tanto, apenas os preços de madeiras nos estados de São Paulo e Pará são...

In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...

The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of...

In most urban cities across Australia, water restrictions remain the dominant policymechanism to restrict urban water consumption. The extensive adoption of waterrestrictions over several years means that Australian urban water prices have consistently not reflected the opportunity cost of water...

To value water quality improvements in the Chesapeake Bay or elsewhere, it is necessary to choose an appropriate model of consumer behavior. A number of different travel cost based recreation demand models have beenemployed to value changes in water quality or beach access. Among the possible...

Historically, wine production and consumption have been at home in Europe. The most important countries mentionable areFrance, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. The European Union (EU 27) occupies a leadingposition on the world wine market....

Paper to be presented at the Comesa policy seminar“Food price variability: Causes, consequences, and policy options"on 25-26 January 2010 in Maputo, Mozambiqueunder the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Markets Project (AAMP)

This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people through creation of new jobs and improvement in their overall welfare. In Swaziland as elsewhere in many African countries, unemployment has been and is still a...