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040			_aMSU _bEnglish language _cMSU _erda
050			_aHB73 JOU
100			_aBrock Blomberg S. _eauthor
245	1		_aLines in the sand _bprice dispersion across iraq's intranational borders before, during and after the surge _cby S. Brock Blomberg and Rozlyn C. Engel
264			_aChicago _bUniversity of Chicago Press _c2012
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440			_aJournal of law & economics _vVolume 55, number 3
520			_aAbstract This paper tests the impact of a change in security commitment on market development in a country embroiled in low-intensity conflict. We analyze weekly price data for approximately 250 goods from 18 Iraqi cities between 2005 and 2008. Our paper suggests four empirical regularities associated with price dispersion and market development in postwar Iraq. First, the degree of intracountry price dispersion in Iraq is higher than that reported for a typical industrialized nation. Second, the degree of price dispersion decreased significantly during 2007, coincident with the change in U.S. security strategy known as the “surge.” Third, the economic impact of the surge is geographically uneven but loosely follows patterns of U.S. deployment—with price dispersion decreasing by roughly one-third in areas targeted during the surge but remaining relatively static in other areas. Finally, we find that internal ethnoreligious divisions have relatively modest effects on price dispersion
650			_aAverage prices _xCities
650			_aDyadic relations _xGravity models
650			_aInternational borders _xMarket prices
700			_aEngel, Rozlyn C. _eco author
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1086/666586
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