On the discovery of millet prices in Mali

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 139-162

  Vitale, Jeffrey ^a   Bessler, David A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graphs; Error correction; Non stationary; Price

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD MARKET; MILLET; PRICE DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; MALI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33745531576     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2006.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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