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How the price of food is determined has become a critical issue, given the drastic surges in prices in recent years and the prevailing expectation of further increases. Along this line, this paper examines the sources of food price fluctuations in 11 developing Asian countries. The working model...
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The present study investigates the price transmission mechanism between producer and consumer prices in the Greek fresh tomato market, using monthly price data from January 1995 to May 2011. The estimation is carried out by applying a Markov Switching Vector Error Correction model. The results...
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importance of supply and demand shocks, which are interpreted as the fundamental driving forces of wheat price. To our knowledge … shocks differently, depending on the type of structural shock. We also show that the results obtained from Cholesy …
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. We discuss implications for theoretical models and for policy responses to energy price shocks. …
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directly observable, exogenous causes ("shocks") that ultimately account for change in the model. In nonstationary models, such … shocks accumulate so that variables have discernible trends. Econometricians have conceived of variables that trend in … cause. It is possible for estimates of the values of both the otherwise unobservable individual shocks and the otherwise …
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This paper investigates a perception in the political debates as to what extent poor countries are affected by price movements in the global commodity markets. To test this perception, we use the case of India to establish in a standard SVAR model that global food prices influence aggregate...
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paper analyzes how U.S. crop prices have responded to shocks in acreage supply; these shocks can be thought of as a shock to … the residual supply of corn for food. Using a structural vector auto-regression framework, we examine shocks to a crop …
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terms of country-specific and euro area shocks, and a further split between supply and demand shocks. The four structural … shocks may all create asymmetries vis-à-vis the euro area. It appears that country-specific shocks are the main source of … growth or inflation divergence, rather than the distinct way in which acceding countries react to euro area shocks. But …
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terms of country-specific and euro area shocks, and a further split between supply and demand shocks. The four structural … shocks may all create asymmetries vis-à-vis the euro area. It appears that country-specific shocks are the main source of … growth or inflation divergence, rather than the distinct way in which acceding countries react to euro area shocks. But …
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