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Price Monitoring.
Francesco Goletti, Naser Farid, Imtiaz Ahmed, and Md. Aminul Islam Khandaker. IFPRI. 1993.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - Introduction
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Chapter 2 - Role of prices and Simple Price Forecasting
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  • 2.1 The Food Grain System
  • 2.2 Marketing Functions and the Role of Prices as Signals
  • 2.3 Simple Price Forecasting
Chapter 3 - Price Variability, Margins, and Market Integration
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  • 3.1 Price Variability
  • 3.2 Market Integration and the Need to Consider Multiple Time Series
  • 3.3 Simple Techniques to Analyze Multiple Series
Chapter 4 - International Prices and Parity Prices
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  • 4.1 Main Characteristics of World Rice Market
  • 4.2 Rice Varieties
  • 4.3 Parity Prices
  • 4.4 Variability of international Prices Versus Domestic Prices
Chapter 5 - Solution to Exercises of Chapter 2
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Chapter 6a - Solution to Exercises (11,12,13,14) of Chapter 3
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Chapter 6b - Solution to Exercises (15,16,17,18,19,20) of Chapter 3
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Chapter 7a - Solution to Exercises (21,22,23,24) of Chapter 4
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Chapter 7b - Solution to Exercises (25,26,27) of Chapter 4
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Chapter 8 - Final Test with Solution
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Appendix
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  • Appendix 1 - File Documentation
  • Appendix 2 - List of Participants
  • Appendix 3 - Schedule of Class
Further Readings
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