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Determinants of food price inflation in Finland—the role of energy / Irz, Xavier; Niemi, Jyrki; Liu, Xing

Niemi, Jyrki	Journal Article
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2013.

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The agricultural commodity crisis of 2006-2008 and the recent evolution of commodity markets have reignited anxieties in Finland over fast-rising food prices and food security. Little is known about the strength of the linkages between food markets and input markets, such as the energy market. Using monthly series of price indices from 1995 to 2010, we estimate a vector error-correction (VEC) model in a cointegration framework in order to investigate the short-term and long-term dynamics of food price formation. The results indicate that a statistically significant long-run equilibrium relationship exists between the prices of food and those of the main variable inputs consumed by the food chain, namely agricultural commodities, labour, and energy. When judged by the magnitude of long-run pass-through rates, farm prices represent the main determinant of food prices, followed by wages in food retail and the price of energy. The parsimonious VEC model suggests that the dynamics of food price formation are dominated by a relatively quick process of adjustment to the long-run equilibrium, the half life of the transitional dynamics being six to eight months following a shock.

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Energy ; Inflation ; Food Prices

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European market for ASEAN agricultural exports: estimates of in / Niemi, Jyrki

Dec 2004

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Dec 2004.

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ASEAN ; European Union ; Economic Relations

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