Agricultural Market Analysis

The Transition to a Market-Based Agricultural Economy in Malawi: A Multi-Market Analysis

Market Information Systems: an Online Agricultural Market News Retrieval System

and "information." Data are empirical measA minicomputer online information retrieval ures of reality. Data do not become information program is described that is designed to faciliuntil they are compiled, processed, and organtate timely distribution of agricultural market ized so that they can have value to a decision news to state and county research and extenmaker (Riemenschneider). The comp...

Is China’s Agricultural Futures Market Efficient?

In this paper, we study the efficiency of the Chinese wheat and soybeans futures markets and assess the conditions in agricultural commodity futures and cash markets in China. Formal statistical tests are conducted through Johansen's cointegration approach to identify the long-term equilibrium relationship between futures and cash markets. Three different cash prices from Zhengzhou Grain Wholes...

1- Introduction, market risk and agricultural policy

The reaction of cattle farmers to CAP reforms under price risk depends on the farmers' technical flexibility and on the influence of direct subsidies on income stabilisation. The bovine sector subsidies, according to their rate of decoupling from product, can stabilise the income and modify the farmers' attitude towards market risk. A portfolio mutliperiod model represents a typical cattle farm...

The Old Poor Law and the Agricultural Labor Market in Southern England: An Empirical Analysis

The paper examines the economic role played by poor relief in early nineteenth-century England. A threeequation model is estimated to explain cross-parish variations in per capita relief expenditures, agricultural laborers' annual wage income, and unemployment rates. Relief expenditures are found to be related to crop mix, the political power of labor-hiring farmers, distance from London, and e...