Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages 42-56Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01183.x
Keywords
capacity constraints; commodity prices; spatial arbitrage; transport costs
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- European Science Foundation
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This article solves a high-frequency model of price arbitrage incorporating storage and trade when the amount of trade is limited by transport capacity constraints. In equilibrium there is considerable variation in transport prices because transport prices rise when the demand to ship goods exceeds the capacity limit. This variation is necessary to attract shipping capacity into the industry. In turn, prices in different locations differ by a time varying amount. Thus while the law of one price holds, it holds because of endogenous variation in transport prices.
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