Estimating the degree of market integration

Fackler P. L., TAŞTAN H.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, cilt.90, sa.1, ss.69-85, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 90 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2008
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2007.01058.x
  • Dergi Adı: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.69-85
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: indirect inference, market integration, price analysis, ARBITRAGE COST APPROACH, WORLD SALMON MARKETS, TIME-SERIES MODELS, ONE PRICE, PRODUCT AGGREGATION, TRANSACTION COSTS, GOLD STANDARD, UNITED-STATES, LAW, COINTEGRATION
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Existing tests of spatial market integration are commonly based on statistical criteria without an explicit link to an economic model of price determination. This article proposes new measures of market integration defined directly in terms of a well-known spatial price determination model and develops an econometric methodology for estimating these measures. Due to the intractability of the conditional density function of prices, we use indirect inference to estimate the model parameters and market integration measures. The methodology is illustrated with simulated data and is applied to soybean price data for the United States, Brazil, and the EU.