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China's 10-year old wheat futures market, the China Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (CZCE) has been in stable development … since establishment and is expected to be integrated to the world market after China joined WTO. This paper compares the … multivariate time series models for the period between 1999 and 2003, around when China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO …
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The last forty years have seen a dramatic decrease in wine consumption in France. In 1965, the wine consumption per people per year was 160 liters ; in 2005, people didn’t drink more than 70 liters of wine in a year. Moreover, from 1980 to 1990, people over 14 years who drunk wine have...
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Functional Food emerged as a constant segment in the Europeanfood market and offer potential for product innovations which make themattractive for the food industry in nearly stagnating markets. Target groupresearch is one key factor for successful innovative food products. The aimof this...
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There have been a number of high profile food safety disputes in trade over the past decade. These include the widely publicized dispute at the World Trade Organization between the U.S. and EU over hormone treated beef. Consumers in some industrialized countries have also expressed concern over...
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While China’'s economic reform has brought about significant economic growth, there is a considerable debate about the … welfare distributions in urban China from 1981 to 1998 and discusses implications for China’'s food consumption patterns and … inequality in urban China has increased significantly since 1981, welfare comparisons based on generalized Lorenz curves suggest …
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The successful literature about gravitational models stresses that bilateral trade flows among countries is influenced by GDP factors and transaction costs. In other words the mass of bilateral trade would be related to the typical demand-supply factors which explain the quantity of traded goods...
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Exchange rate effects on prices in Canada and the United States are evaluated for five traded farm outputs (wheat, soybeans, corn, feeder steers, and slaughter steers) and four traded non-farm-produced inputs (fertilizer, pesticides, petroleum, and farm machinery). Unit root tests suggest the...
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This paper examines price integration in the MERCOSUR countries of Argentina and Brazil after the creation of this regional economic agreement using a fractional cointegration analysis. The results suggest that Argentine wheat and corn prices are fully cointegrated with the corresponding world...
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This paper was presented at the INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS SYMPOSIUM in Auckland, New Zealand, January 18-19, 2001. The Symposium was sponsored by: the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, the Venture Trust, Massey University, New Zealand, and the Centre for...
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This paper was presented at the INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS SYMPOSIUM in Auckland, New Zealand, January 18-19, 2001. The Symposium was sponsored by: the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, the Venture Trust, Massey University, New Zealand, and the Centre for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444447