Agricultural Price and Income Policy

PRICE VOLATILITY AND FARM INCOME STABILISATION Modelling Outcomes and Assessing Market and Policy Based Responses

The sharp increase in agricultural commodity prices in 2008 and in 2011 has triggered an intensive debate on the causes for these price booms. Speculative bubbles have been quoted as one factor among others for the price peaks. Against this background, our paper contributes to this discussion by implementing a novel test procedure for speculative bubbles which has been suggested in the stock ma...

PRICE VOLATILITY AND FARM INCOME STABILISATION Modelling Outcomes and Assessing Market and Policy Based Responses

On the example of a commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Tanzania this paper investigates first whether agricultural firms have a different probability to get a loan and whether their loans are differently volume rationed than loans to non-agricultural firms. Second, we analyze whether agricultural firms repay their loans with different delinquencies than non-agricultural firms. Our res...

Related to Agricultural Research, Distribution of Income and Agricultural Value Added

Agricultural Research is one of the most important factors in agricultural development, thus, the role and importance of research is increasing. Within the past years, all developed and consequently developing countries have engaged their most attention to promote their researches indexes. This study is investigating the effect of agricultural research on the distribution of income and agricult...

PRICE VOLATILITY AND FARM INCOME STABILISATION Modelling Outcomes and Assessing Market and Policy Based Responses

Combined Optimal Price and Optimal Inventory Ordering Policy with Income Elasticity

In the present paper, the effect of income elasticity on demand has been considered and the buyer’s optimal special order quantity and optimal time has been determined, when supplier reduces sale price then buyer may offer a discount to push his sale to increase his profit margin. Income elasticity effect in inventory analysis has been introduced to obtain the gain equation to find the optimal ...