Lecture—"Credit and Welfare Across the Lean Season: Farming in Gombe, Nigeria"

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Location: Hesburgh Center Room C103 (View on map )

Ethan Ligon
Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley

The agricultural season naturally induces seasonal variation to prices for things like maize. In high income countries this seasonality is mitigated by global markets for both maize and financial instruments, but not everyone is connected to these markets. Is it possible to make money by "buying low and selling high" in poorly integrated local markets?

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Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute at the Keough School of Global Affairs.