Modeling spatial price transmission in the grain markets of Ethiopia with an application of ARDL approach to white teff

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2005, Pages 491-502

  Getnet, Kindie ^a,b   Verbeke, Wim ^b   Viaene, Jacques ^b  

^a Ambo College of Agriculture   (Ethiopia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ARDL approach; Ethiopia; Government intervention; Grain market; Market integration; Price transmission

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; GRASS; LIBERALIZATION; MODELING; PRICE DETERMINATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33745528846     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0864.2005.00469.x     Document Type: Article

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