Price linkages between the Polish and foreign markets of grains and pork were investigated in the paper. The analysis indicates a decrease in price differences between the Polish and the EU markets and their increase between the Polish and the US markets. Causality tests and VAR models indicate...

An increased volatility of agricultural products' prices, observed in recent years, has caused a greater exposure of market participants to the market risk. The main goal of this article is to estimate the volatility of price returns in the grain legumes grown in Poland and the ground soybean...

The present study highlights the context of wheat futures trading in India and examines its performance in terms of price transmission between Indian and US futures, domestic futures and spot markets, and, extent of integration between those markets. Role of wheat futures in price...

A graphical and tablular summary of U.S. exports to major Asian countries is prepared from United States export and United Nations trade data. U.S. exports of 55 horticultural commodities are ranked by average value over the 1993 to 1995 period to 22 major Asian countries, to four Asian...

This study aimed at estimating the implicit prices farmers are willing to pay (WTP) for maize traits with deliberate focus on drought tolerance. Using choice experiment, we generated 12600 observations from a random sample of 1400 households in communal areas within 14 districts of Zimbabwe....

This work was aimed at analysing the effects of the sudden food price explosion followed by pricecrash which occurred recently on the foreign trade of the food economy. Comparison of the balances of thedifferent countries was difficult due to the differences in the absolute dimensions; therefore...

Self management of natural resources has started to gain increasing attention as an alternative tool to command-and-control and market-based tools, but the fundamental question remains: is self management economically beneficial such that it should be promoted in the first place? This article...

This paper aims to provide a flexible methodological framework to estimate import demandmodels, which explicitly considers the stochastic properties of data and the endogenous/exogenousnature of some variables. The French imports of virgin olive oil have been used as a case study withSpain,...