Trains, Trade and Transaction Costs : How Does Domestic Trade by Rail Affect Market Prices of Malawi Agricultural Commodities?

Trains, Trade and Transaction Costs : How Does Domestic Trade by Rail Affect Market Prices of Malawi Agricultural Commodities?

This paper measures the impact of low-cost transport by rail in Malawi on the dispersion of agricultural commodities prices across markets by exploiting the quasi-experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic transport by rail in Jan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zant, Wouter
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
RAIL
AGRICULTURE
TRADE
TRANSACTION COSTS
CROP PRICES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/393461498762732861/Trains-trade-and-transaction-costs-how-does-domestic-trade-by-rail-affect-market-prices-of-Malawi-agricultural-commodities
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27635

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/393461498762732861/Trains-trade-and-transaction-costs-how-does-domestic-trade-by-rail-affect-market-prices-of-Malawi-agricultural-commodities
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27635

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