the iranian poultry sector has experienced many significant structural changes in recent years. such changes may have influenced price dynamics and transmission of shocks through marketing channels especially on retail markets. this paper investigate price transmission, threshold behavior and asymmetric adjustment in poultry sector of ardebil (ar), east azerbaijan (ea) and west azerbaijan (wa) ...

How does an increase in food prices at the border impact poverty in Uganda given the strong spatial heterogeneity of the country and its limited domestic transportation and communication networks? Recently, a number of studies on the impact of international food prices on poverty in developing countries have been published. However, the role of spatial price transmission in this context remains...

This paper contributes with an in-depth investigation of spatial wheat producer market integration between two neighbouring countries, net exporting Hungary and net importing Slovenia. One of the key features of this spatial producer price transmission is the very important role Hungary plays in supplying wheat to Slovenia. Using monthly data from January 2000 to April 2011, spatial price trans...

The paper explores the characteristics of spatial price movements for fresh vegetables. The analysis is conducted on tomatoes and cauliflowers prices collected on main production and consumption European markets. It is based on the estimation of an asymmetric threshold autoregressive econometric specification that is shown capable of providing estimates of transaction costs and speeds of price ...

The existing literature has extensively discussed the role of retail promotions, while spatial effects promotions are poorly understood. Using panel data weekly promotional prices from German beer retailers during period 2000–12, we examine based on estimations. Results show significantly positive price indicating that neighbouring retailers’ boost each other. We further find significant hetero...

abstract this study is an attempt to investigate the influence of targeting subsidies on price transmission pattern in iran's egg market. the targeting subsidies plan was imposed by 20 december 2010. using of daily price time series data, the study was conducted during december 2009 to october 2011. using ecm model, price transmission models were estimated for the two periods (e.g. before and a...

There is an extensive literature on distance and border effects in trade, but little attention has been paid to the impact of distance and borders on spatial price transmission. We analyze distance and border effects in maize price transmission between Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Using monthly data from January 2000 to October 2008, maize price transmission is measured for 85 market pairs withi...