La creciente difusión de toda una serie de trabajos médicos que relacionan dieta y salud, bien sea a través de los medios de comunicación, bien a través de las visitas a médicos y especialistas en nutrición, está modificando las tendencias existentes en el consumo de determinados...

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,...

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...

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...

We analyze vertical price transmission in the German biodiesel market studying therelationship between rapeseed oil, soya oil and biodiesel prices. We focus on the period fromsummer 2002 to late 2007 during which the German biodiesel market developed into thelargest market worldwide, mainly...

This article examines the impacts of monetary policy on agricultural prices in the Hungarian economy using time series analysis. The empirical results indicate that agricultural prices adjust faster to monetary shocks than industrial prices do, affecting relative agricultural prices in the short...

Existing empirical evidence on the impact of macroeconomic variables on agriculture remains mixed and inconclusive. This paper re-examines the dynamic relationship between monetary policy variables and agricultural prices using alternative vector autoregression (VAR) type model specifications....