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Annexes<br />

METHODOLOGY DATA USED MAJOR FINDINGS<br />

DYNAMIC REGRESSION MODELS BASED ON A POINT LOCATION MODEL: COINTEGRATION<br />

Thompson et al., 2002a<br />

Their focus is on the estimation<br />

technique and on the extent to which<br />

liberalizing policy reforms contribute<br />

to market spatial efficiency. They use<br />

Seemingly Unrelated Regression<br />

Augmented Dickey Fuller tests and<br />

error-correction models to account for<br />

cross-equation correlations among<br />

markets.<br />

Verga e Zuppiroli, 2003<br />

They apply cointegration analysis to<br />

four European soft wheat markets to<br />

test the relations between them, with<br />

the institutional EU prices and with<br />

the international prices. With the<br />

“directed graphs” technique, they also<br />

analyze contemporaneous relations<br />

between the prices. They tests are run<br />

on the whole subsample and in the<br />

sub-period 1995-2002.<br />

Viju et al., 2006<br />

They asses the accession of Austria,<br />

Finland and Sweden to the EU from<br />

the perspective of market integration.<br />

They use cointegration techniques in<br />

two different samples (pre and post<br />

accession). For each product, for each<br />

period, they run cointegration analysis<br />

in pairs with the German price.<br />

134<br />

Soft wheat quarterly prices for<br />

Germany, France and the UK<br />

(Eurostat; domestic prices), and<br />

US cif Rotterdam. All prices are<br />

nominal and converted in<br />

dollars with IMF exchange rates<br />

(in logs; the analysis on deflated<br />

prices yields no significant<br />

differences). 1976:3-1999:4<br />

Weekly prices (in levels) for<br />

two main Italian markets and<br />

two main French makets; cif<br />

Rotterdam price of US Soft Red<br />

Winter wheat; intervention<br />

price; EU import price.<br />

January 1990-December 2002.<br />

Monthly data (in logs) for rye,<br />

oats, barley, soft wheat and<br />

potatoes for Austria, Finland,<br />

Sweden, Germany (=EU<br />

reference price). Data are<br />

obtained from Eurostat, and are<br />

all converted to ecu/euros.<br />

January 1975-December 2004.<br />

The adjustment coefficients<br />

for EU countries (the same<br />

speed of convergence is<br />

imposed amongst all<br />

countries) increase after<br />

1993 and 1995, but<br />

nonetheless keep low due to<br />

the imperfect tariffication<br />

realized under the URAA.<br />

The European market is<br />

strongly cointegrated, but<br />

there is no cointegrating<br />

relationship with the US<br />

price. The EU prices are<br />

cointegrated with the<br />

institutional prices (but they<br />

claim this relation is unstable<br />

and thus distorted) but not in<br />

the subsample 1995-2002.<br />

Higher variability of EU<br />

prices is not due to bigger<br />

linkages with the<br />

international markets but to<br />

the lowering of the<br />

intervention price.<br />

The prices are highly<br />

cointegrated after the three<br />

countries joined EU. Beyond<br />

the presence of arbitrage,<br />

results could be explained by<br />

the fact that all products<br />

studied (except of potatoes)<br />

are under CAP support. In<br />

the pre-EU period,<br />

cointegration among prices<br />

was discovered for rye, soft<br />

wheat and barley between<br />

Austria and Germany<br />

(neighbouring countries with<br />

strong transportation ties).

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