Abstract In 2019, Ireland was the third-largest exporter of butter in world market but Irish prices have been more volatile compared to other dairy products. Yet, empirical research that examines price dynamics and international competitor behavior remains scarce. The Vector Error Correction Model applied data from 1970–2019, test extent which changes farm milk had an impact on prices. results ...

Marginal farm land is land characterised by low food, feed and fodder crop productivity due to soil and environmental limitations. Such land may however be utilised for bio-energy crop production. We investigate the economic viability of small scale combined heat and power anaerobic digestion (CHP AD) projects based on feedstock from farm waste and bio-energy crops grown on a representative tem...

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization in agricultural products between Mexico and the U.S. due to NAFTA on the distribution of Mexican farm incomes during the 1990s. By relating NAFTA tariff cuts to border prices of Mexican exports and imports, we are able to examine both benefits to Mexican farmers resulting from higher prices of export goods, as well as losses incurred from g...

Potatoes and tomatoes are the key vegetables of Romanian agriculture, due to their consumption large growing areas. The paper analyses import export potatoes tomatoes, prices for these vegetables, while based on that Gini coefficient was calculated. According value coefficient, concentration potato is relatively low, considerably higher. A similar situation with tomato, as values indicate low r...

In recent years, African countries have demonstrated renewed commitment to industrialization as part of a broader agenda to diversify their economies, build resilience to shocks, develop productive capacity for high and sustained economic growth, create employment opportunities and substantially reduce poverty. The renewed commitment to promoting industrial development in Africa is timely. Afri...

A key emerging insight in international economics is that the scope for quality differentiation can help to explain patterns in export prices at the level of products or firms. In this paper, a unified theoretical framework of firm heterogeneity in cost and quality is brought to bear on an expansive data set of U.S. import transaction prices collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Th...

BACKGROUND To assess the effect of policies supporting local medicine production to improve access to medicines. METHODS We adapted the WHO/HAI instruments measuring medicines availability and prices to differentiate local from imported products, then pilot tested in Ethiopia and Tanzania. In each outlet, prices were recorded for all products in stock for medicines on a country-specific list....

The impact of price frames on consumer decision making: Experimental evidence We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first result is that export tariffs are strategic complem...

Abstract The Ukraine and Russia play important roles for global food security as major exporters of agri-food products. study Berndt et al. (2022) uses computable equilibrium models to analyse how the war in could affect prices finds that export restrictions from can considerably increase grain oilseed prices. In long-run, these price increases be reduced through increased production exports ot...