Agricultural Economics, 2024 (vol. 70), issue 1

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Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(1):I-III  

Impact of external shocks on international corn price fluctuationsOriginal Paper

Shuai Liu, Dingyu Liu, Sibo Ge

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(1):1-11 | DOI: 10.17221/318/2023-AGRICECON  

In recent years, the external shock represented by COVID-19 has caused significant fluctuations in global corn prices. Based on the weekly data on international corn prices from 2020 to 2023, this paper constructs autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) class and time-varying parameter – vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) models. After analysing the characteristics of corn price fluctuations, it further analyses the influence of external uncertainties such as COVID-19, international finance, the corn futures market, and international exports of corn on corn price fluctuations. The results show that international corn price fluctuations...

The impact of fluctuating international fertiliser prices and exchange rates on domestic fertiliser prices in TürkiyeOriginal Paper

Ozgur Bor, Nihat Dagistan

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(1):12-23 | DOI: 10.17221/308/2023-AGRICECON  

This study aims to examine the relationship between domestic and international prices of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) and urea fertilisers together with exchange rates in Türkiye using the non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model on monthly data for the period of January 2011 to September 2022. The result of the study provides empirical evidence about the presence of asymmetries in the short and long-run among these fertilisers. The findings of the study confirm that international prices of di-ammonium phosphate and urea fertilisers have a symmetric effect in the long-run and exchange rate of the Turkish lira to US dollars has an asymmetric...

Beef, lamb, pork and poultry meat commodity prices: Historical fluctuations and synchronisation with a focus on recent global crisesOriginal Paper

Massimiliano Calvia

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(1):24-33 | DOI: 10.17221/361/2023-AGRICECON  

This work addresses short-run fluctuations of nominal global meat commodity prices, that is, beef, lamb, pork, and poultry, from January 1980 to October 2023, thus including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. It tries to answer the following questions: how do fluctuations in meat commodity prices behave historically? Are meat commodity prices synchronised? Do their co-movements show specific features during recent global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war? Using a ‘classical’ framework of cycle analysis, the work provides a series of turning points upon which statistics on phase and...

Does the payment method matter in online shopping behaviour? Study on the Romanian market of vegetables during the pandemic crisisOriginal Paper

Ioan-Sebastian Brumă, Cristina Cautisanu, Lucian Tanasă, Simona-Roxana Ulman, Meda Gâlea, Alexandra Raluca Jelea

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2024, 70(1):34-47 | DOI: 10.17221/314/2023-AGRICECON  

The present study, centred on customer online shopping behaviours, aims at analysing the frequency of vegetable acquisition and its main determining factors, while considering different methods of payment, i.e. cash, debit card, and bank transfer on the Romanian market. Using data obtained from a questionnaire applied nationwide, a descriptive analysis and logistic regression were performed. An immature market in terms of digitalisation, characterised by the customers’ mistrust in online bank transfers, but also in products sold online was observed. In addition, the income, education, gender, and size of the household appeared to be significant...