What Drives Local Food Prices? Evidence from the Tanzanian Maize Market

We examine the drivers of monthly changes in maize prices across 18 Tanzanian markets. Local prices respond three to four times faster to the main regional market (Nairobi) than to the international benchmark (US Gulf). More importantly, shocks from Nairobi account for only one third of the explaine...

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Main Authors: Baffes, John, Kshirsagar, Varun, Mitchell, Donald
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34293