This study aims to improve our understanding of the extent and speed of the transmission of international cereal prices to local markets in developing countries. We analyse two samples of price transmission (PT) estimates, one extracted from a comprehensive literature sample of 31 published...

This study aims to improve our understanding of the extent and speed of the transmission of international cereal prices to local markets in developing countries. We analyse two samples of price transmission (PT) estimates, one extracted from a comprehensive literature sample of 31 published...

Sarris considers the benefit to agricultural producers of commodity price insurance that provides in every year - but in advance of the resolution of production and price uncertainty - a minimum price for a fixed or variable portion of production. Under the assumption that producers do not...