Applying cointegration and error correction to measure trade linkages: Maize prices in the United States and Mexico

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-39

  Motamed, Mesbah ^a   Foster, Kenneth A ^a   Tyner, Wallace E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maize markets; NAFTA; Price linkage

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAIZE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRICE DYNAMICS;

JALISCO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHOACAN; NORTH AMERICA; OAXACA; SINALOA; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 45349108780     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2008.00312.x     Document Type: Article

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