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Provedor de dados: | 118
País: | Chile
Título: | Market integration for Chilean wheat prices using Vector Error Correction Models (VECM), a cointegration analysis: análisis de cointegración
Autores: | Valdes,Rodrigo; von Cramon-Taubadel,Stephan; Díaz,José.
Data: | 2011-04-01
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Cointegration analysis; Price band; Wheat; Cereal prices; International market of commodities; Vector error correction model.
Resumo: | Historically Chile has been a wheat net importer country. This situation, added to the small size of its economy, causes that the domestic price of this cereal is highly influenced by import prices of substitute wheat. This research analyzed the integration level of the Chilean wheat market with respect to the USA and Argentinean markets using a vector error correction model (VECM), the impact of the band prices (D-BAND) and the change of the band mechanism introduced in 2004 (D-MECH) by the inclusion of two binary variables in the VECM. The results showed strong market integration among Argentina, Chile and USA, with USA leading the market. Additionally, the price of the Chilean wheat was influenced by the USA and Argentina prices. The binary variables, included in the models, showed that this system had been useful to protect the domestic market by reducing the fluctuations of the wheat prices (D-BAND), and the new mechanism performs as a protection over the international fluctuations (D-MECH). Both coefficients presented non-significative values, probably due to the difference among the input cost and the domestic price support mechanism, the sub-valuated commodities markets, increment on cereal price levels, inflationary scenarios and low number of observations.
Tipo: | Journal article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-16202011000100001
Editor: | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Ciencia e investigación agraria  v.38 n.1 2011