Why do prices in Spain's regions fail to converge? The prime suspects for this puzzling result are differences in … illustrate the effect of barriers on prices. A unique data set-derived from an extensive analysis of competition policies in … Spain- provides evidence that barriers to entry increase regional prices. The evidence also suggests that, consistent with …

1960-74, while prices, land values, and interest rates explain deviations from the trend during 1975-88. Projections of …

commodity and how media coverage in other commodities affects prices. We provide evidence of the relationship between media …In this paper we examine the effects of media coverage of commodity prices increases and decreases on the price of the … coverage and its intensity to the price level of agricultural commodities and oil futures. We find that price movements are …

non linearity in time series behavior. Thus, this study analyzed the behavior of time series of sugar cane prices using …