The Response of Ethiopian Grain Markets to Liberalization



Table 10 SURE estimates of the effects of seasonality, grain market liberalization, rainfall and food aid on white
wheat price levels based on the assumption of weak market integration (1984:10 to 1993:12)

Independent
variables “

Market

Addis Ababa

Hosaenna

Dire Dawa

Mekele

Constant

54.52a

34.84c

140.27a

119.27a

Dec

-9.95

-10.35

-7.40

0.43

Jan

-6.15

-2.65

9.35

-29.56a

Feb

-7.64

-0.25

-8.56

-9.71

Mar

-15.49

1.62

-6.67

-2.97

Apr

-11.25

9.39

1.85

-6.55

May

-3.20

11.97

3.34

8.63

Jun

-2.26

15.8b

-10.98

20.23c

Jul

8.53

6.85

-8.70

20.94c

Aug

8.68

4.80

-3.20

10.30

Sep

12.78

8.85

1.63

29.37a

Oct

8.86

11.38c

-1.71

5.06

Dlib 12

2.16

11.68b

-9.24

-41.99a

RF

-0.05

-0.04

-0.00259

-0.19a

FAID

0.000258

-0.000817

0.000431c

-0.000274a

Pt-1

0.70a

0.67a

0.28a

0.67a

Diagnostics

R2

0.69

0.68

0.07

0.92

JB

58.57a

4.09

2.76

0.55

Q-S_________

12.03

10.41

97.91a

5.26

Note: a, b, and c indicate statistical significance at a probability of less than 1%, 5% and 10% respectively.

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