Der Agrarsektor spielt eine wichtige Rolle in lateinamerikanischen Wirtschaftssystemen, er beinhaltet bis zu 23 Prozent des BIP (z.B. in Guatemala und Nicaragua). Natürlich ist er auch sehr wichtig für den Arbeitsmarkt, das Einkommen der ärmsten Menschen und die Ernährungssicherung. Die...

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 explores the link between proximity and price cointegration between two markets, where proximity is captured with variables for geographical, political and cultural distance. Linear and threshold cointegration is tested for a set of 756 rice market pairs in 6 West African countries,...

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...