Testing for the law of one price and identifying price-leading markets: An application to corn markets in Benin

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 713-738

  Erno Kuiper, W ^a   Lutz, Clemens ^b   Van Tilburg, Aad ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD MARKET; NATIONAL TRADE; PRICE DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

BENIN;

EID: 0343502700     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0022-4146.00157     Document Type: Article

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