The integration of the Finnish meat market in the EU has important implications for domesticagricultural policy. Our aim is to estimate the characteristics of the Finnish pork and beef markets inrelation to those of Germany and Denmark. Our analysis uses symmetric and asymmetric thresholderror...

This paper aims to provide a flexible methodological framework to estimate import demandmodels, which explicitly considers the stochastic properties of data and the endogenous/exogenousnature of some variables. The French imports of virgin olive oil have been used as a case study withSpain,...

This paper determines the demand for a forestry program amongst rural households in western Kenya. It is based on a field survey with 277 households, using a stratified random sampling approach. The study follows attribute based method to elicit farmers’ preferences. Demand is measured in...

RESUMEN: El objetivo de este trabajo es el estudio de la integración del mercado español del aceitede oliva y la contrastación de la Ley de Precio Único (LPU) en dicho mercado. El análisis se lleva acabo aplicando la técnica multivariante de cointegración a series mensuales (1987-2001) de...

The price transmission between markets is often interpreted as providing insights into the market’s infrastructure efficiency and transaction costs. Thus, finding a possible explanation for the degree of integration has become an issue of special interest. Recent researchers have pointed out...

This study uses a rich dataset of 85 market pairs between January 2000 andOctober 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda, the three largest member countries ofthe East Africa Community, to analyze the factors determining national and cross-nationalmaize price transmission. Although the three...

This paper analyses the economics of biofuel production and the implications that the accelerating growth in biofuel production in many countries could have on agricultural markets. It shows that production costs of ethanol and biodiesel differ significantly across countries and feedstock crops....

We assess market integration and price transmission of perishableagricultural produce in Sub-Saharan Africa by studying Ghanaian tomato marketswhich are characterized by pronounced seasonality in production and trade flows.We analyse the tomato markets of Ghana by simultaneously regarding its...

This study examines the dynamic effects of grain prices and energy prices on catfish feed prices and the price of food-sized catfish at the farm level. Using the autoregressive distributed lag model and bounds testing procedure, a long-run relationship between feed and farm prices and their...

This study uses panel data at suburb level to estimates the elasticity water demands inPerth, Australia from 1995 to 2005. After deriving the consumer’s water demand under anon-linear budget constraint, we estimate the water demand model, which accounts forhow water (and other purchased goods)...