prices of meat in the international and a nation's internal markets tend to be closely related to each other. this relation could be sometimes harmful and due to lagged responses, meat prices at the internal market would subsequently increase as input prices increase at either the internal or international market. price uncertainty and transmition are two important problems facing a nation...

Cotton is a strategic crop with a critical role in the economy and agriculture. The increasing price of crop inputs is the main challenge for the developing countries, including Iran, so that it is crucial for the economy of the states to recognize the underpinning factors. Accordingly, the present study aimed to identify the relationship between price shocks of cotton production inputs and cot...

the main purpose of this study, is surveying the factors that affect price impact of block trades in the stock market. for this reason, the sample consisted of 525 block trades have been selected randomly of accepted companies in tehran stock exchange, that have block trade during the period 1390 to 1392. in this paper, total, temporary and permanent price impact is used as dependent variables,...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between price dispersion and inflation; we use weekly retail scanner data from 2009 to 2011 to measure price dispersion and inflation for several dairy products. We implement a linear model to investigate the linkage between price dispersion and consumer price indexes. As in the previous literature, we obtain mixed results with respect to the relati...

BACKGROUND Cigarette price increases have been associated with increases in smoking cessation, but relatively little is known about this relationship at the level of individual smokers. To address this and to inform tax policy, the goal of this study was to apply a behavioural economic approach to the relationship between the price of cigarettes and the probability of attempting smoking cessati...

This paper examines empirically the relationship between the relative price of capital and the rate of economic growth. In the results. machinery appears to bc the most important component of capital: when the relative price of machinery and the relative price of nonmachinery are included in a Barro ( 199 1) growth regression, a strong negative relationship between growth and the machinery pric...

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between consumer price index (CPI) and producer price index (PPI) in Malaysia. This research considers monthly data of consumer price index and producer price index from January 1986 to April 2007. The Johansen cointegration method suggests that there is long-run equilibrium relationship between these two variables. Both Engle Grange...

Prior studies find that the growth of managed care through the early 1990s introduced a strong positive relationship between price and concentration in hospital markets. We hypothesize that the relaxation of constraints on consumer choice in response to a "managed care backlash" has diminished the price sensitivity of demand facing hospitals, reducing or possibly reversing the price-concentrati...