The use of price controls is widespread across emerging markets and developing economies, including for food and key imported and exported commodities. Although they are sometimes used as a tool for social policy, price controls can dampen investment and growth, worsen poverty outcomes, cause...

Convention specifies the relationship between price and unemployment in terms of the Phillips curve (PC) where inflation and the rate of unemployment are correlated. This paper uses a variant of the PC that is more consistent with the relationship between price and output as depicted in the...

The financial – banking institutions draw up price setting strategies for the purpose of reaching some objectives of the price policy such as: increasing or maintaining the market share or the intention to dominate the market under economical recession conditions. This paperwork presents six...

The paper examines the underlying political economy motivations of the government's policy responses to food price increases in 2007/08 focusing particularly on maize as the main staple crop. The main government policy responses to the food price spikes in 2007/08 were price control, bans on...

The article having as theme "The marketing conception and design of the supply and demand for accounting information. Bookkeeping and accounting services marketing process”, brings into the reader’s attention the aspects of an intense connection between accounting and marketing in the...

This paper examines the rice yield gap between Myanmar and Vietnam, two countries that show a stark contrast in terms of rice production in the past two decades. It considers the impact on yield of price policies and public investments in production technology. While domestic rice prices were...