This paper investigates the law of motion for the cross-section distribution of dietary energy supply (DES) in the world. This has been pursued using the distribution approach and a panel of 152 countries for the period 1961-2001. According to the empirical results, persistence in caloric...

The study of spatial price relationships helps to explain market performance and the degree of market integration. This paper provides an empirical analysis of the long- and short-run price linkages in the olive oil market of the Mediterranean using Time Series techniques. The empirical results...

Nonparametric (Kernel) regression analysis and micro-data from the Family Budget Survey (FBS) are used in this paper to estimate and to compare the Engel curves for food demand of the urban and the rural households. The empirical results suggest that the Characteristic Substitution Effects...

The observed “soft†coordination at European and national level has hindered progress in terms of raising social welfare and reducing the risk of poverty in EU. This is a source of concern given that the fruits of economic efficiency should be shared by the individuals and Member...

This work suggests that the range of parametric configurations which give rise to a strictly convex farm-retail price transmission function is wider than that identified by Azzam (1999). As a matter of fact, Azzam's implicit result (that is, a strictly convex aggregate demand function leads...

Empirically implementable measures of optimal capacity utilization are developed from the dynamic profit maximization perspective. The primal measure is based on behavior of the firm's supply along an optimal path to the steady state. The dual measure is based on behavior of the firm's supply...

This paper uses the notions of convergence in ratio and of convergence in difference to investigate price convergence for poultry and eggs in geographically separated EU markets. According to the empirical results, there is global and strong convergence of prices in the poultry markets but not...

The objective of this paper is to assess technical efficiency of cereal production in Greece in a nonparametric framework while accounting for a set of exogenous variables. To this end, we implement robust partial frontier techniques on a sample of cereal-producing farms included in the Farm...

This paper analyses free-on-board (FOB) versus uniform delivery (UD) pricing policy choices in a mixed duopsony market. We use a two-stage game between a profit maximising investor owned firm and a cooperative which aims at maximising the welfare of its members. The results show that UD (FOB)...