Following the dramatic changes experienced by the prices of agricultural commodities in 2007-2008, the analysis of horizontal price transmission mechanisms in agricultural markets has attracted renewed interest. In particular, this has led to the emergence of new challenges for the empirical...

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Paper for presentation at the Northeastern Agricultural & Resource Economics Association’s Workshop on Economics and Child Nutrition Programs, AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23, 2011.

This paper provides an opportunity for the reader to get an insight into the current modelling work atthe Research Institute for Agricultural Economics, Hungary (AKI). After giving a short summary ofthe applied econometric models in the past decade, our latest development, the farm group...

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,...

A simple but new theoretical approach is used to analyse ex-ante the impact of tariff reduction. Thismethodology is based on the assumption of a constant price relation between each direct substitutableproduct. No elasticities are needed, but accurate import and domestic prices of the most...

This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings...