Incomplete Credit Markets and Commodity Marketing Behaviour

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-24

  Stephens, Emma C ^a   Barrett, Christopher B ^b  

^a PITZER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity markets; Inter temporal arbitrage; Kenya; Liquidity; Maize; Seasonality; Storage

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; CREDIT PROVISION; INCOME; MAIZE; MARKETING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONALITY; TRANSACTION COST;

KENYA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78751685568     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2010.00274.x     Document Type: Article

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