Agricultural product prices / William G. Tomek, Harry M. Kaiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomek, William G., 1932- author.

Kaiser, Harry Mason, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural prices--United States.

Agricultural prices.

Farm produce--Prices--United States.

Farm produce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages)

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of commodities, and policymakers, clearly explaining conceptual and empirical models applicable to agricultural product markets. The new fifth edition uses up-to-date information and models to explain the behavior of agricultural product prices. Topics include price differences over market levels (marketing margins), price differences over space (regionally and internationally) and by quality attributes, and price variability with the passage of time (seasonal and cyclical variations, trends, and random behavior). William G. Tomek and Harry M. Kaiser review and adapt microeconomic principles to the characteristics of agricultural commodity markets and then apply these principles to the various dimensions of price behavior. They also provide an in-depth discussion of prices established for futures contracts and their relationship to cash (spot) market prices; cover the influential roles of price discovery institutions, such as auctions and negotiated contracts, and government policies regulating trade and farms; and discuss the specification, use, and evaluation of empirical models of agricultural prices, placing emphasis on the challenges of doing high-quality, useful analyses and interpreting results.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Kenneth L. Robinson: An Acknowledgment

Preface to the Fifth Edition

1. Introduction

Part I. Principles of Price Determination

2. Demand for Agricultural Products

3. Demand Elasticities and Related Coefficients

4. Supply Relationships in Agriculture

5. Price Determination: Theory and Practice

Part II. Price Differences and Variability

6. Marketing Margins

7. Price Differences Associated with Quality

8. Spatial Price Relationships

9. Price Variation through Time

10. General Farm - Non-farm Price Relationships

Part III. Pricing Institutions

11. Mechanisms for Discovering Prices

12. Price Relationships on Commodity Futures Markets

13. Functions of Commodity Futures Markets

Part IV. Introduction to Empirical Price Analysis

14. Background for Price Analysis

15. Using and Evaluating Results

16. Applications

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print record version.

ISBN:

9780801471100

0801471109

9780801471117

0801471117

OCLC:

888348650