We investigate how the structure of price dispersion is in Argentina. We use daily data reported by supermarkets and we measure price dispersion at the bar code level in order to analyze whether supermarkets set prices ...

This paper tested an arbitrage pricing model for futures contracts on commodities with storage costs. We found that this method proves to be very accurate in describing the behaviour of futures prices for wheat at the ...

With a large share of households with low and medium-low income, the increase in agricultural commodity prices has the potential to hurt a sizable part of the population through a rise in the price of the consumption ...

Argentina has benefited greatly from the increase in prices of agricultural commodities. With a large share of its population with low and medium-low incomes; however, a sizable part of households is likely to be adversely ...