... insight into how current US biofuel policies are expected to affect crop prices in the near future. United States of America Biofuel policies Agricultural commodity price Agriculture Process The fact that the world has had two agricultural commodity price spikes in the last three years has...

... short‐run. Furthermore, a permanent price change shows greater impact than temporary price changes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America China Soft drinks Addiction Rational addiction Carbonated soft drinks Time‐varying parameter model Addiction...

... income is about 22 percent (maximum 65 percent in 1983, changed between 12 and 65 percent during 1961‐1972 and 1981‐2008). All of these ratios changed widely. Yang Zou can be contacted at: yzou33@nankai.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America...

... by: Equation 18 Equation (13) implies that the unconditional forecast is an aggregation of four conditional forecasts. United States of America Food products Marketing strategy Prices Retailing How retailers set prices has been an interesting topic in economics. Retail price analysis remains...

... for the reinsurance fund allocation decision. Section 5 presents the conclusion. Crops Insurance Reinsurance Decision making United States of America China Agricultural producers may purchase crop insurance to protect themselves against the loss of their crops due to adverse events, such as hail...

... prevalent in the pork industry (Martinez, 2002) [1] . This paper, by incorporating the perishable nature of food industries, presents a simple model to help explain why the vertical coordination varies among those food industries. Food products Agriculture Contracts United States of America...