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Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volume 13, 2021

Price Transmission in Agricultural Markets

Abstract

We review recent developments in the analysis of price transmission in agricultural markets. Markets may be separated in time, form, and space (as well as in combinations of such factors). Transactions and storage costs as well as production and marketing factors delineate these markets. We show that much of the research on spatial market linkages has reflected methodological advances that have led to increasingly nonlinear time-series models. Advances in the theoretical and empirical literature over the last few decades have demonstrated that price relationships in the food chain are highly context specific. Improvements in marketing, information, and transportation technology have strengthened the links between prices in the food system, but at the same time links in the food chain are increasingly subject to vertical coordination and, thus, less visible to outside observers, including researchers.

Keyword(s): JEL C580, JEL F020, law of one price, spatial market integration, vertical price transmission
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Price Transmission in Agricultural Markets
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