The behavior of commodity prices in Ethiopia

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-97

  Tadesse, Getaw ^a   Guttormsen, Atle G ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Intertemporal arbitrage; Price thresholds; Price volatility; Speculation

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STABILIZATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 78650411521     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2010.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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