Borders, ethnicity and trade

This paper uses unique high-frequency data on prices of two agricultural goods to examine the additional costs incurred in cross-border trade between Niger and Nigeria, as well as trade between ethnically distinct markets within Niger. We find a sharp and significant conditional price change of abou...

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Volume:	107
Main Author:	Aker, Jenny C Klein, Michael W O'Connell, Stephen A Yang, Muzhe
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.03.2014 ELSEVIER Elsevier Science Publishers
published in:	Journal of development economics Vol. 107; pp. 1 - 16
ORCID:	0000-0003-4167-0935
Data of publication:	March 2014
ISSN:	0304-3878 1872-6089
EISSN:	1872-6089
Discipline:	Economics Agriculture
Subjects:	Ethnicity Agriculture Africa Border costs Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Q1 Ethnicity O1 Africa Border costs Agriculture F1 PRICES COSTS MARKETS
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS