This study relates the demand for quality foods in Hanoi in terms of its nutritional composition, diversity, price, processing stage, source, and extent eaten outside home with urbanization and enhanced incomes. The vast differences in these foods quality parameters across different...

The impact of cross sectional aggregation over individual retail stores on the estimation and testing of vertical price transmission between the wholesale and retail levels is investigated using a unique data set of individual retail prices in Germany. Systematic differences between the results...

In repeated choice modelling studies, it is often the case that individuals always select the status quo option. Although these choices may reflect considered choices, they may also be the result of alternative decisions about whether to participate in the choice process at all. Alternative...

Non market valuation and bio economic modelling are combined in a dynamic model of ecosystem services. A mathematical proof demonstrates that the imputed price of natural capital contains all non market values and that scarcity rent is the total value of ecosystem services. A dynamic demand...

The agricultural sector is a central part of the Fiji Islands economy. Policies to alleviate poverty and stimulate economic growth need to be based on a sound understanding of the local agricultural systems involved. This understanding needs to extend to the responsiveness of production to price...

Cooking oil is known as an essential commodity in Indonesia. Having such an important role, the Indonesian government often interfered the cooking oil market to assure its price remain low. To do so, the government uses a subsidy policy as one of its instruments. A dynamic duopoly model is...

O presente artigo refere-se ao estudo e comparação dos padrões sazonais de comportamento dos preços do amendoim no período de janeiro 1996 a dezembro de 2005. Constata-se que fatores sazonais, safra e entressafra, de fato influenciam o comportamento e a oscilação de preços no mercado de...

O artigo pretende verificar a relação entre os preços internos e externos no mercado de algodão, buscando testar se a Lei do Preço Único foi válida nesse mercado, no período de julho de 1996 a janeiro de 2008. Utilizaram-se dados mensais extraídos do Centro de Estudos Avançados em...

Este trabalho teve como objetivo principal investigar, empiricamente, os efeitos da implantação do Plano Real no comportamento de longo prazo dos preços da cana-de-açúcar praticados nos estados de São Paulo e Paraná. Utilizou-se na analise testes de raiz unitária e de co-integração na...

Este estudo estima as elasticidades de transmissão entre pares de preços para a soja produzida no Mato Grosso e Paraná; Mato Grosso e Rio Grande do Sul; e Paraná e Rio Grande do Sul, com o intuito de testar a validade da Lei do Preço Único entre esses mercados. Os dados empregados...