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The Corn-Egg Price Transmission Mechanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Ronald A. Babula  and
David A. Bessler
Ronald A. Babula
Affiliation:
National Aggregate Analysis Section, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
David A. Bessler
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University
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Abstract

A vector autoregression (VAR) model of corn, farm egg, and retail egg prices is estimated and shocked with a corn price increase. Impulse responses in egg prices, t-statistics for the impulse responses, and decompositions of forecast error variance are presented. Analyses of results provide insights on the corn/egg price transmission mechanism and on how corn price shocks pulsate through the egg-related economy.

Keywords

corn/egg price transmissionsvector autoregressionimpulse responsesChow testforecast error variance decompositionsKloek-Van Dijk Monte Carlo procedure
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , December 1990 , pp. 79 - 86
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1990

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