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- Title
A measure of marketing price transmission in the rice market of Taiwan.
- Authors
Kuan-Min Wang; Yuan-Ming Lee
- Abstract
The goal of this paper is to test whether changes in the marketing margin between the farm and the retail prices can result in an asymmetric relationship between the farm and the retail prices in the rice market of Taiwan. By separating the transaction cost variation into two regimes, this paper utilizes a two-regime TVECM with the error correction term serving as the threshold variable to create a non-linear threshold model. The empirical results show that when the marketing margin is lower than the threshold value, the market system operates freely and there is feedback between the farm and retail prices. However, when the marketing margin is higher than the threshold value, the government intervenes in the market and the causality between the farm and retail prices no longer exists. The conclusions are as follows. Changes in the marketing margin can cause the asymmetric price transmission between the farm and retail prices in Taiwan's rice markets; therefore, ignoring the effect of the marketing margin could lead to errors in the models. When the marketing margin is higher than the threshold value, the government intervenes in the market and the causality between the two prices is broken.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; MARKETING margin; RICE marketing; PRICES; TRANSACTION costs
- Publication
Proceedings of Rijeka Faculty of Economics: Journal of Economics & Business, 2009, Vol 27, Issue 2, p311
- ISSN
1331-8004
- Publication type
Article