This paper investigates several basic characteristics of food and agricultural prices across commodities, countries and time. The first part of the paper uses consumer prices across commodities and countries from the International Comparisons Program and finds that food has a distinct tendency...

Diese Dissertation umfasst drei Studien zu Preistransmission und Marktintegration in Schweizer Agrar- und Lebensmittelmärkten. Der Artikel "Protecting the Swiss milk market from foreign price shocks: Public border protection vs. quality differentiation" analysiert räumliche oder horizontale...

A considerable number of studies have examined the relationship between global prices and local prices in food-importing nations, but the linkages between international prices and the producer prices of large agricultural exporters have been largely ignored. This paper analyzes the connections...

We assess the conjunctural impact of price insulating policies on spatial price transmission of maize, rice and wheat in Cameroon, Kenya and Tanzania in the period 2005-2015. We therefore separately estimate the impact of trade policies within two regimes of behaviour of the domestic price...