High trade costs and their consequences: An estimated dynamic model of african agricultural storage and trade

Using a new intranational dataset of monthly grain prices and production and a new approach to identify cost parameters, I estimate and solve a dynamic model of agricultural storage and trade covering all 42 countries of continental sub-Saharan Africa. I find median trade costs over five times highe...

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Main Author: Porteous, O. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association 2019
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