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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community
Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy I. - 2011
This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011814
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Telecommunication submarine-cable deployment and the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joël - 2018
percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent's population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951676
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The welfare effects of mobile internet access : evidence from Roam-Like-At-Home
Quinn, Martin; Matos, Miguel Godinho de; Peukert, Christian - 2022
the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual … deadweight loss, i.e., new users accessing the mobile internet. We further show that the impact of the regulation varies with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888496
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ICT adoption in micro and small firms : can internet access improve labor productivity?
Viollaz, Mariana - 2017
This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing … firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782094
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Online versus in-person services : effects on patients and providers
Dahlstrand, Amanda; Le Nestour, Nestor; Michaels, Guy - 2024
Online delivery of one-to-one services offers potential cost savings and increased convenience, yet relatively little is known about its impacts on providers and consumers. This paper studies the online delivery of healthcare, focusing on primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637277
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Measuring the immeasurable : the evolution of the size of informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU-15 up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple indicators multiple causes model (MIMIC) was developed for the estimation of levels of informal economy in 15 "Old" European Union Member States' agricultural sectors for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486396
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The interplay between oil and food commodity prices : has it changed over time?
Peersman, Gert; Rüth, Sebastian; Van der Veken, Wouter - 2019
Using time-varying BVARs, we find that oil price increases caused by oil supply shocks did not affect food commodity prices before the start of the millennium, but had positive spillover effects in more recent periods. Likewise, shortfalls in global food commodity supply - resulting from bad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064355
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The impact of food prices on conflict revisited
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2019
Studies that examine the impact of food prices on conflict usually assume that (all) changes in international food prices are exogenous shocks for individual countries or local areas. By isolating strictly exogenous shifts in global food commodity prices, we show that this assumption could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105564
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Agricultural price shocks and business cycles a global warning for advanced economies
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2018
For a panel of 75 countries, we find that increases in global agricultural commodity prices that are caused by unfavorable harvest shocks in other regions of the world significantly curtail domestic economic activity. The effects are much larger than for average global agricultural price shifts....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846251
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Spatial differentiation and market power in input procurement : evidence from a structural model of the corn market
Jung, Jinho; Sesmero, Juan; Siebert, Ralph - 2020
We estimate the cost of transporting corn and the resulting degree of spatial differentiation among downstream firms that buy corn from upstream farmers and examine whether such differentiation softens competition enabling buyers to exert market power (defined as the ability to pay a price for...
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