Replaced with revised version of paper 02/22/11.

Farm milk prices tend to be volatile. Dairy farmers, industry pundits, and policymakers further tend to react to price volatility with alarm. One point of concern is the response of retail prices. This study investigates farm-to-retail price transmission in the 2000s for whole milk and cheddar...

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

En este trabajo se leeva a cabo un analisis del mercado interior de pescadp fresco en la Comunidad Autonoma del Pais Vasco. En particular, se analizan los precios de una de las principales especies objetivo de la flota de bajura, el verdel o caballa del Atlantico Nordeste, centrandose en el...

The objective of this study was to determine whether long-run relationships existed between price premiums for wools with different fibre diameters. Based on cointegration analysis using monthly data from 1976.8 to 1999.10, the results showed that price premiums, in relative price terms, for...

This paper explores price integration between wholesale and retail prices of live reef food fish, a highvalue export fishery supplied by nearly 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific region with demand centred in Hong Kong. Cointegration analysis is used to test for relationships between wholesale and...

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...

Based on cointegration analysis and monthly data from 1976.8 to 1999.10, a long-run equilibrium relationship was found to exist between prices for wools of 19 to 23 microns, despite the wool Reserve Price Scheme operated until February 1991. Furthermore, the prices for 19, 20 and 21 micron wools...

Monthly observations on prices from 10 weight/gender classifications of Nebraska beef cattle are studied in an error correction model (ECM) framework. This study attempts a replication of the 2003 paper on Texas prices by Bessler and Davis, where they find medium heifers (600–700 lb) at...

Reduced reliance on cash market prices for fed cattle and hogs raise questions about the role of cash prices in price discovery. We use seven years of weekly data from mandatory price reports to determine whether or not cash market prices are cointegrated with other procurement prices and then...