The study analyzes price transmission in international rice markets in the last 12 years, covering the period before and after the 2008 food crisis. To this end, it provides empirical evidence of price transmission between the international and domestic markets of rice using price series from...

Economists use partial and general equilibrium trade simulation models to estimate the impact of changes in domestic policies and international trade rules. During the WTO Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations economists have produced many different estimates of the gains that would result...

There is no consensus on what defines a reference for the world rice price. A review on rice as a differentiated commodity shed two important insights. First, it confirms that few studies have considered segmentation of rice in their price analysis. Second, Thai 5% brokens has often been...

[...] Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Ökolandbau in den Ländern vermehrt vorkommt, in denen ein höherer Anteil mäßig bis sehr gute Bodenqualitäten vorhanden ist. Mit einer eingängigen Schätzung konnte gezeigt werden, dass kein statistisch gesicherter Zusammenhang zwischen der Ökofl äche...