Transfer costs, spatial arbitrage, and testing for food market integration

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 477-487

  Baulch, Bob ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Market integration; Parity bounds; Switching regression model

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOOD MARKET; MARKET INTEGRATION; NATIONAL TRADE; PARITY BOUNDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ARBITRAGE;

PHILIPPINES;

EID: 0031411841     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244145     Document Type: Article

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