Agricultural Price Analysis and Forecasting

ISBN-13: 9780471304470 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str.

John W. Goodwin;Goodwin

Opis

Aims to provide students with the skills required in the application of economic theory to agricultural economics. Using various problem-solving approaches, the text instills an understanding that economic theory does in fact describe true relationships by people in the real world.

Spis treści

Price Determination Versus Price Discovery.

Correcting for Inflation––The Use of Index Numbers.

Price Movements Over Time––Analysis of Trends.

Simple Linear Regression and the Estimation of Trends.

Price Movements Over Time––Cycles.

Measuring Cycles.

Price Movements Over Time––Seasonality.

Supply–Demand Relationships––Supply.

Supply–Demand Relationships––Demand.

Demand and Elasticity.

Estimation of Demand and Supply––Multiple Graphic Correlation.

Estimation of Demand and Supply––Regression Revisited.

Marketing Margins.

Market Structure––Pure Competition.

Market Structure––Monopoly and Monopsony.

Market Structure––Oligopoly and Oligopsony.

Index.