NDIAYE, Moctar; D'hotel, Elodie Maitre; Cotty, Tristan Le - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2014
This paper addresses the role of market remoteness in explaining maize price volatility in Burkina Faso. A model of … price volatility. Empirical support is provided to the proposition by exploring an unusually rich data set of monthly maize … volatility. The analysis finds that maize price volatility is greatest in remote markets. The results also show that maize …