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IDS Working Paper 20

Transfer Costs, Spatial Arbitrage and Testing Food Market Integration

Published on 1 January 1995

Conventional tests for food market integration ask whether prices in different locations move together. This paper develops an alternative and more reliable test methodology: the parity bounds model.

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Baulch, B. (1995) Transfer Costs, Spatial Arbitrage and Testing for Food Market Integration, IDS Working Paper 20, Brighton: IDS.

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IDS
authors
Baulch, R.
journal
IDS Working Paper, issue 20
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1 85864 038 5

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