Publications > Cahiers (English)> N° 9, 4th term 1988

• [Regional disparities in food prices in France], J.-M. Robin
• [The respective influence of food and manufactured products price on the dynamics of the wage-price sector], C. Tavéra
• [Forestry vs hunting ?], O. Nougarède

Disparités régionales des prix des produits alimentaires
[Regional disparities in food prices in France]

J.-M. Robin

In : Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, n° 9, 4th term 1988, pp 5-24

Abstract : Price measures can be drawn from household survey data where both quantities and values are recorded. We use here the INSEE food consumption survey to study price variations of foodstuffs throughout the 21 French regions. The region effect on food prices appears thus to be quite large at a low level of aggregation. Partly explainable by production and transport costs this seems also to reflect the existence of oligopolies and desequilibria between supply and demand.

Key-words : France, prices, food consumption, regions.

Salaires, prix infustriels et prix alimentaires : un test statistique
[The respective influence of food and manufactured products price on the dynamics of the wage-price sector]

C. Tavéra

In : Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, n° 9, 4th term 1988, pp 25-44

Abstract : This paper aims at analysing the dynamic relationships lying between nominal wages, retail prices of food and retail prices of manufactured products. The author uses French quaterly data for the period 1970-1986. More precisely it is an attempt to measure the respective influence of food and industrial prices within the dynamics of the wage-price sector. This study successively uses bivariate (Granger and Pierce-Haugh) then trivariate (from an unconstrained vectorial autoregressive model) causality analysis. Lastly, a comparison of the respective impact of food and industrial prices on wages is given. Two kinds of results are put in light. At first, retail food prices are always determined via a mark-up process. Secondly, the respective medium-run elasticities of wages with respect to food and industrial prices alternatively are lower and greater than the share of the food and industrial products within the typical consumer basket.

Key-words : statistical data, wages, industrial prices, food prices.

Sylviculture et chasse : une cohabitation impossible
[Forestry vs hunting ?]

O. Nougarède

In : Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, n° 9, 4th term 1988, pp 45-69

Abstract : Divergent practices on the same forest area - such as wood production and hunting - lead contradictions. Surveys made among several users of a forest of the Parisian Basin aim at studying how different practices are facing and thus clashing each other. The analysis of various ways of owing, working and using the same area shows that hunting deals more and more with money until it becomes incompatible with intensive forestry. For profitability's sake, some forest owners may soon have to commercialize either cynergetic leisure or wood production.

Key-words : forest, Parisian Basin, hunting, forestry, social customs.