Maize is a major staple food in Sub-Saharan Africa. Monthly maize prices in Tanzania are analyzed since the country is … an important maize producer and exporter in East Africa. We analyze price transmission between the five most important … urban regions of Tanzania between 2000 and 2008 which correspond to major maize production or consumption areas. We propose …

of financing. -- cointegration ; regime shifts ; US housing bubble ; subprime lending ; bubble indicator …

cointegration and price transmission. A border separating two markets reduces the probability of cointegration of price series by 23 …% compared with markets located in the same country. 1000 kilometers of distance reduces the probability of cointegration by 7 … economically insignificant for international market pairs. Maize price pairs are less often cointegrated compared to rice prices …

due to publication bias. Cointegration is more prevalent for maize market pairs and less prevalent for rice market pairs … maize prices. In a subsequent meta-regression analysis we measure how much of the variation in the samples of PT estimates …

due to publication bias. Cointegration is more prevalent for maize market pairs and less prevalent for rice market pairs … maize prices. In a subsequent meta-regression analysis we measure how much of the variation in the samples of PT estimates …