This dissertation was written by Johannes Pfeiffer while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in November 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the department of economics of the University Regensburg in December 2016. The thesis studies unintended...

The study of Spatial Market Integration (SMI) has been of great concern for agricultural economists, with the Takayama and Judge Price and Allocation Model (TJM), in which prices are bounded by the Spatial Equilibrium Condition (SEC), being the core economic theory. The SEC implies that no...