%O The authors wish to than Patrick Jomini, B.I. Shapiro and W.H.M. Morris
for helpful comments and for help in collecting data.
%K Niger, Millet, Market prices
%A B W Brorsen
%A A A Adesina
%I Elsevier B.V.
%V 04
%L icrisat9680
%J Agricultural Economics
%N 3-4
%P 287-296
%R 10.1016/0169-5150(90)90006-M
%D 1990
%X Niger has two separate marketing channels for grain: one is the official system operated by the government; the other is a parallel channel of private traders. Researchers or policy-makers wanting to study effects of price policies on producers are faced with two sets of prices. This paper seeks to answer the question, which prices matter? Non-nested hypothesis tests are conducted for millet-acreage response equations. The results show that prices from the larger private market are the prices that matter.
%T A test of whether millet acreage in Niger is determined by official or private market prices