will entail retail price reduction which is achievable only if the market for dry fish operates efficiently. This study …, after testing and correcting price series for non-stationarity, modelled marketing efficiency in 66 pairs of spatially … separated markets. The unit root test was used to reveal the order of econometric integration of the price series. All price …

. We find a striking disintegration in recent decades, as measured by price dispersion, which we attribute to decades of …

from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas … of these programs. This article considers one such program, the Zambian Food Reserve Agency (FRA), which purchases maize … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities …

This is the first paper to analyze the impact of biofuels on the price transmission along the food chain. We analyze … the U.S. corn sector and its vertical links with food and ethanol (energy) markets. We find that biofuels affect the price … market shock and the policy regime: the price transmission elasticity declines under a binding blender's tax credit and a …

WASDE corn, soybean, and wheat price forecasts …

We examine the actual price impact of genetically modified grain contamination events. This paper contributes to the … literature by examining the price effects of multiple genetically modified contamination events in the U.S. corn market. Using … the relative price of substitute method and time-varying cointegration, we identify two primary structural breaks most …

Price forecasts are critical to market participants when making production and marketing decisions and to policymakers … volatile conditions experienced in the corn market since 2006, the need for price forecasting has become even more critical …. The purpose of this paper is to explore an alternative econometric procedure to forecast the season-average price of corn …