The proliferation of private quality and assurance schemes in international trade is defining market access in high value chains. The prime concern for small-scale producers is whether price premiums are realizable due to compliance. Using French beans marketing, the authors find that GlobalGAP...

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...

Only a few studies have analysed staggering and synchronisation in pricing behaviour of multiproduct firms. These studies used low-frequency data in an environment of high rates of inflation. This article investigates staggering and synchronisation of weekly prices for 10 food products in 131...