This paper examines the supply response of the Greek pork market. A GARCH process isused to estimate expected price and price volatility, while price and supply equations areestimated jointly. In addition to the standard GARCH model, several different symmetric,asymmetric, and nonlinear GARCH...

This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...

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This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...

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The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete library visit: www.ifama.org

This paper addresses the issue of price risk assessment in the agricultural commodity markets. Four the most frequently used approaches and related methods of measuring price risk in commodity markets were characterized and used to assess price risk in the wheat market in Poland. Results of the...