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...

The goal of this study is to estimate how different price or quantity fixing contracts affectthe value of pig space unit in pig fattening. The value of pig space unit is estimated with astochastic dynamic programming algorithm. The model maximises the value of pig spaceunit by using four...

The goal of this study is to investigate the price relationship of EU biofuel market with other main markets inboth horizontal level and vertical level. We first carry out Granger causality between ethanol price of EU,USA and Brazil. Secondly, we use vecto error cointegration Mechnism (VECM) to...

Palm oil is the most consumed and traded vegetable oils in the EU and the world. Increasing non-food uses forvegetable oils in especially feedstock of biofuels in recent years have caused the price volatility to rise in both EUand global market. The most efficient pricing of crude palm oil (CPO)...