Abstract:
This paper uses Moran’s index to measure the spatial correlation of apple, citrus and banana price among provinces in China, on which, a spatial panel econometric model is built to study the formation and the spatial transmission of apple, citrus and banana price among provinces. The results show that the apple, citrus or banana prices are spatially dependent among provinces, that is, the domestic markets of apple, citrus or banana are becoming an integrated one. Meanwhile, the price of apple, citrus or banana of one province is affected by its yield, sale cost, per capita income, urbanization rate and price of its substitutes. Besides, the spatial coefficient of geography of apple, citrus or banana price separately is 0.91,0.91and 0.69, the spatial coefficient of development level of which separately is 0.86,0.51and 0.62, the spatial coefficient of openness level of which separately is 0.13,0.64and 0.42, the spatial coefficient of local market protection of apple or banana price separately is 0.35and 0.36, which point that factors such as geographic distance, difference of local market protection, openness level and economic development among provinces block the spatial transmission of apple, citrus or banana price among provinces.