How Vulnerable are Arab Countries to Global Food Price Shocks?

We estimate pass-through effects of international food price movements into domestic food prices for 18 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, using threshold regressions. International price movements transmit to various degrees into domestic prices. Transmission is mostly asymmetric, pushi...

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Main Authors: Ianchovichina, Elena I., Loening, Josef L., Wood, Christina A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20477