Price Integration in Low-Income Countries: Market Structure and Retail Price-Setting Behaviour in Lesotho

Research Note

Published on 2 May 2014

Abstract

This research note by Mamello Nchake and Lawrence Edwards (both University of Cape Town) summarizes the authors' stylised findings on price-setting behaviour among retail outlets in Lesotho using disaggregated product price data.

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Price Integration in Low-Income Countries: Market Structure and Retail Price-Setting Behaviour in Lesotho

Abstract

Other research note publications

Brine and Burden: How Salinisation Threatens Worker Productivity and Health in Coastal Bangladesh

What Reduces Frictions in Trade Finance? The Role of Banks, Relationships, and Policy

The Role of (Mis)Perceptions in Product Choice: Evidence from a Randomised Trial in Zambia

Market-based Information to Predict Small Firms’ Marginal Returns to Capital and Other Business Support Services

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