Price transmission and trader entry in domestic commodity markets

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 729-766

  Fafchamps, Marcel ^a   Hill, Ruth Vargas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; COFFEE; COMMODITY MARKET; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXPORT; PRICE DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

EID: 47149093694     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588155     Document Type: Article

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