@article{Amikuzuno:134754,
      recid = {134754},
      author = {Amikuzuno, Joseph and Ogundari, Kolawole},
      title = {The Contribution of Agricultural Economics to Price  transmission Analysis and Market Policy in Sub-Sahara  Africa: What Does the Literature Say?},
      address = {2012-04},
      number = {354-2016-18149},
      pages = {25},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {Price transmission studies have become increasingly  important in Sub Sahara Africa
over the last two decades  because of their application in assessing the impact of  the
market reforms policies embarked upon by the region’s  governments between the mid
1980s and early 1990s. In this  study, a meta database obtained from 45 price
transmission  studies published between 1978 and 2011, is used to provide  an overall
assessment of the potential impact of selected,  study-specific attributes on estimated
price transmission  coefficients and in identifying asymmetric price  transmission.
Despite the large dispersion of estimated  price transmission coefficients 2.5% - 94.2%,
the mean  coefficient of 32.2% is an overall assessment that the  extent of price
transmission in SSA is comparatively low.  The predicted impacts of the study-specific
attributes on  the price transmission coefficients, and on the likelihood  of the primary
studies to report asymmetric price  transmission however differ consistently across  the
attributes, and provide in general evidence on the  critical role such attributes play in
determining price  transmission results and their implications for policy  formulation.
Therefore, future research on price  transmission should carefully account for the
impact of  study-specific attributes in their results.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/134754},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.134754},
}