Market Emergence and Transition: Transaction Costs, Arbitrage, and Autarky in China’s Grain Markets.

Using tri-monthly Chinese provincial grain prices from 1988 to 1995, we estimate a parity-bounds model of inter-regional trade for four sub-periods to characterize how multiple aspects of market performance change during the process of economic transition. For each period, we estimat...

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Main Authors: Park, A, Jin, H, Rozelle, S, Huang, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2002