Fruit and Vegetable Prices and Perceptions in Mercalaspalmas Wholesale Market

This paper studies the behavior of fruit and vegetable prices in a wholesale market. Its aims are: a) to examine price behavior and changes; and b) to identify statistically significant factors in the perception of prices and to quantify the effect of these factors on the market price. For this purpose, daily data were obtained on modal prices at the Mercalaspalmas wholesale market from 2006 until mid-2010. The results obtained show there is a similar degree of flexibility in price increases and decreases, and show the product to be the determinant element in setting prices. There was found to be a strong degree of price permanence, in the sense that changes take place slowly and following a lag. The following significant factors were identified in the perception of prices: the length of time a price has remained unchanged in the market; the period during which a product has been absent from the market; the quantities traded at a given price; and the index of market prices. However, the quantitative effect of this body of factors on the perceived price is very limited

Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Index (typography · Market price · Microeconomics · Mid price · Monetary economics · Price level · Producer price index · Product (mathematics · Wholesale market · Wholesale price index · Economic Growth and Productivity · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Mathematics · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact

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