World market integration for export and food crops in developing countries: A case study for Mali and Nicaragua

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 619-630

  Baquedano, Felix G ^a   Liefert, William ^a   Shapouri, Shahla ^a  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coffee; Cotton; D40; F15; Generalized error correction model; Mali; Market integration; Nicaragua; Price transmission; Q11; Q17; Rice

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL MARKET; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; COFFEE; COTTON; DEVELOPING WORLD; ERROR CORRECTION; EXPORT; PRICE DYNAMICS; PUBLIC SECTOR; RICE; SPECIALIZATION;

MALI; NICARAGUA;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 80051689507     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2011.00540.x     Document Type: Article

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