Government intervention and market integration in Indonesian rice markets

Government market interventions into rice wheat and cotton in iran

Market Integration in Wholesale Rice Markets in India

This paper tests for market integration in 55 wholesale rice markets in India using monthly data over the period January 1970 – December 1999. The technique of Gonzalez-Rivera and Helfand (2001) is used to identify common factors across various markets. It is discovered that market integration is far from complete in India and a major reason for this is the excessive interference in rice market...

Market Integration: An Application of Co-integration and Error Correction Model to Rice Markets in Bangladesh

The study was conducted to investigate the degree and nature of spatial integration among district level monthly wholesale price of rice in Northwestern and greater Mymensingh region of Bangladesh. Market integration was examined by co-integration method-while price fluctuations were estimated by Error Correction Mechanism (ECM). Stationarity of data was checked with the help of Augmented Dicke...

Seasonal Price Movements and Unit Roots in Indonesian Rice Market Integration

The use of cointegration techniques to measure market integration and Granger Causality to establish the direction and strength by which markets influence each other is taken a stage further. The importance of first testing whether trends and cycles in the price series are deterministic or stochastic processes is pointed out. This in turn establishes the appropriate form of equations to be used...

Investigating Market Integration and Price Transmission of Different Rice Qualities in Iran

Rice production in most of Asian countries has been increased more rapidly than population and this has been led to increase in supply and proportionately decrease in the real price of rice in world and domestic markets. Furthermore, together with growth in production and national gross income of the country per-capita income has been increased and also demand for rice at national and internati...