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Theresa Osborne

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First Name:Theresa
Middle Name:Kay
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Working papers

  1. Osborne, Theresa, 2023. "Diagnosing the Binding Constraints to Better Jobs: An Approach and Framework," Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides 32579693, The World Bank.
  2. Hatayama,Maho & Li,Yiruo & Osborne,Theresa Kay, 2022. "Understanding and Predicting Job Losses due to COVID-19 : Empirical Evidence from Middle Income Countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9933, The World Bank.
  3. World Bank, 2020. "Bolstering Poverty Reduction in Rwanda," World Bank Publications - Reports 34753, The World Bank Group.
  4. Theresa Osborne & Nadia Belhaj Hassine Belghith, 2016. "Shifting Fortunes and Enduring Poverty in Madagascar," World Bank Publications - Reports 26303, The World Bank Group.
  5. Theresa Osborne & Maria Claudia Pachon & Gonzalo Enrique Araya, 2013. "What Drives the High Price of Road Freight Transport in Central America?," World Bank Publications - Reports 17845, The World Bank Group.

Articles

  1. Osborne, Theresa, 2006. "Credit and risk in rural developing economies," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 541-568, April.
  2. Osborne, Theresa, 2005. "Imperfect competition in agricultural markets: evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 76(2), pages 405-428, April.
  3. Theresa Osborne, 2004. "Market News in Commodity Price Theory: Application to the Ethiopian Grain Market," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 71(1), pages 133-164.

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Working papers

  1. Hatayama,Maho & Li,Yiruo & Osborne,Theresa Kay, 2022. "Understanding and Predicting Job Losses due to COVID-19 : Empirical Evidence from Middle Income Countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9933, The World Bank.

    Cited by:

    1. World Bank & Coll-Black,Sarah & Von Lenthe,Cornelius Claus & Koettl-Brodmann,Stefanie, 2023. "Social Protection in a World of Crisis : Learning from the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemicin Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus," Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes 183521, The World Bank.

  2. Theresa Osborne & Nadia Belhaj Hassine Belghith, 2016. "Shifting Fortunes and Enduring Poverty in Madagascar," World Bank Publications - Reports 26303, The World Bank Group.

    Cited by:

    1. Natasha Stoudmann & Lena M. Reibelt & Christian A. Kull & Claude A. Garcia & Mirana Randriamalala & Patrick O. Waeber, 2019. "Biting the Bullet: Dealing with the Annual Hunger Gap in the Alaotra, Madagascar," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-18, April.
    2. Manohisoa Rakotondrabe & Fabien Girard, 2021. "Protecting Traditional Knowledge through Biocultural Community Protocols in Madagascar: Do Not Forget the “B” in BCP," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-36, September.

  3. Theresa Osborne & Maria Claudia Pachon & Gonzalo Enrique Araya, 2013. "What Drives the High Price of Road Freight Transport in Central America?," World Bank Publications - Reports 17845, The World Bank Group.

    Cited by:

    1. Liao, Haiyan & Holguín-Veras, José & Calderón, Oriana, 2023. "Comparative analysis of the performance of humanitarian logistic structures using agent-based simulation," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    2. Patrick Plane, 2021. "What Factors Drive transport and Logistics Costs in Africa ?," Working Papers hal-03198081, HAL.
    3. Cosar,Ahmet Kerem, 2022. "Overland Transport Costs : A Review," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10156, The World Bank.
    4. Jerónimo Carballo & Georg Schaur & Christian Volpe Martincus, 2018. "Transportation and trade interactions: a trade facilitation perspective," Chapters, in: Bruce A. Blonigen & Wesley W. Wilson (ed.), Handbook of International Trade and Transportation, chapter 14, pages 422-450, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Articles

  1. Osborne, Theresa, 2006. "Credit and risk in rural developing economies," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 541-568, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Phan, Chung Thanh & Sun, Sizhong & Zhou, Zhang-Yue & Beg, Rabiul & Ramsawak, Richard, 2023. "Does productive microcredit improve rural children's education? Evidence from rural Vietnam," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    2. Harangus, Daniela, 2008. "New solutions in the crediting process of agriculture," MPRA Paper 16540, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 01 Aug 2008.

  2. Osborne, Theresa, 2005. "Imperfect competition in agricultural markets: evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 76(2), pages 405-428, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Marco Letta & Emiliano Magrini & Pierluigi Montalbano, 2019. "Spatial heterogeneity in price (dis)incentives: evidence from the Ugandan maize value chain," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 39(1), pages 495-501.
    2. Porteous, Obie, 2017. "Empirical effects of short-term export bans: The case of African maize," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 17-26.
    3. Abate, Gashaw T. & Bernard, Tanguy & de Janvry, Alain & Sadoulet, Elisabeth & Trachtman, Carly, 2021. "Introducing quality certification in staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Four conditions for successful implementation," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    4. Kala Krishna & Lena Sheveleva, 2014. "Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting," NBER Working Papers 20630, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Dagim G. Belay & Hailemariam Ayalew, 2020. "Nudging farmers in crop choice using price information: Evidence from Ethiopian Commodity Exchange," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 51(5), pages 793-808, September.
    6. Sitko, Nicholas & Jayne, T.S., 2014. "Demystifying the Role of Grain Assemblers in the Rural Maize Markets of Eastern and Southern Africa," Food Security Collaborative Working Papers 176628, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
    7. Casaburi, Lorenzo & Reed, Tristan, 2017. "Competition in Agricultural Markets: An Experimental Approach," CEPR Discussion Papers 11985, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    8. Marcel Fafchamps & Ruth Vargas Hill, 2008. "Price Transmission and Trader Entry in Domestic Commodity Markets," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 56(4), pages 729-766, July.
    9. Pierluigi Montalbano & Rebecca Pietrelli & Luca Salvatici, 2017. "Market chain participation and food security: the case of the Ugandan maize farmers," Working Papers 2/17, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS.
    10. Fekadu Gelaw & Stijn Speelman & Guido Huylenbroeck, 2017. "Impacts of Institutional Intervention on Price Transmissions: The Case of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 88-106, November.
    11. Nancy H. Chau & Hideaki Goto & Ravi Kanbur, 2016. "Middlemen, fair traders, and poverty," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 14(1), pages 81-108, March.
    12. Meilin Ma & Richard J. Sexton, 2021. "Modern agricultural value chains and the future of smallholder farming systems," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 52(4), pages 591-606, July.
    13. Mejía, Gonzalo & García-Díaz, César, 2018. "Market-level effects of firm-level adaptation and intermediation in networked markets of fresh foods: A case study in Colombia," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 132-142.
    14. Eugenia Go, 2020. "Trade implications of transport cost in the Philippines," Economics PhD Theses 0320, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
    15. Riera, O. & Minten, B., 2018. "Mobile phones and agricultural market performance in Ethiopia," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277107, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    16. Christine Moser & Christopher Barrett & Bart Minten, 2009. "Spatial integration at multiple scales: rice markets in Madagascar," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 40(3), pages 281-294, May.
    17. Alessandra Garbero & Tulia Gattone & Marco Letta & Pierluigi Montalbano, 2022. "Market proximity, resilience, and food security: A cross-country empirical analysis," Working Papers 9/22, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS.
    18. Muhammed A. Usman & Mekbib G. Haile, 2017. "Producer to retailer price transmission in cereal markets of Ethiopia," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 9(4), pages 815-829, August.
    19. Cockx, Lara & Colen, Liesbeth & De Weerdt, Joachim, 2018. "From corn to popcorn? Urbanization and dietary change: Evidence from rural-urban migrants in Tanzania," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 140-159.
    20. Brian Dillon & Chelsey Dambro, 2017. "How Competitive Are Crop Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 99(5), pages 1344-1361.
    21. Quattri, Maria A. & Ozanne, Adam & Wang, Xioabing & Hall, Alastair R., 2011. "On The Role Of The Brokerage Institution In The Development Of Ethiopian Agricultural Markets," 85th Annual Conference, April 18-20, 2011, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 108941, Agricultural Economics Society.
    22. Lee, Guenwoo & Suzuki, Aya, 2020. "Motivation for information exchange in a virtual community of practice: Evidence from a Facebook group for shrimp farmers," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    23. Sigei, Geoffrey & Bett, Hillary & Kibet, Lawrence, 2014. "Determinants of Market Participation among Small-scale Pineapple Farmers in Kericho County, Kenya," MPRA Paper 56149, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    24. Minten, Bart & Assefa, Thomas & Hirvonen, Kalle, 2017. "Can Agricultural Traders be Trusted? Evidence from Coffee in Ethiopia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 77-88.
    25. Eugenia C. Go, 2020. "Mind the Gap: Trade Costs and Markups in the Philippines," Working Paper Series 1820, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
    26. Tessema, Yohannis & Asafu-Adjaye, John & Rodriguez, Daniel & Mallawaarachchi, Thilak & Shiferaw, Bekele, 2015. "A bio-economic analysis of the benefits of conservation agriculture: The case of smallholder farmers in Adami Tulu district, Ethiopia," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 164-174.
    27. Barrett, Christopher B., 2008. "Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 299-317, August.
    28. Eugenia Go, 2022. "Overland and Oversea: Domestic Trade Frictions in the Philippines," Asian Development Review (ADR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 39(02), pages 75-118, September.
    29. Berhane, Guush & Mcbride, Linden & Hirfrfot, Kibrom Tafere & Tamru, Seneshaw, 2012. "Patterns in foodgrain consumption and calorie intake," IFPRI book chapters, in: Dorosh, Paul A. & Rashid, Shahidur (ed.), Food and agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and policy challenges, chapter 7, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    30. Jeni Klugman, 2007. "Ethiopia : Explaining Food Price Inflation," World Bank Publications - Reports 19539, The World Bank Group.
    31. Haile, Mekbib G & Kalkuhl, Matthias & Usman, Muhammed A, 2015. "Market information and smallholder farmer price expectations," African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, African Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 10(4), pages 1-15, December.
    32. Lodovico Muratori, 2016. "Price Gap along the Ugandan Coffee Value Chain," Working Papers 1/16, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS.
    33. Berhane, Guush & Paulos, Zelekawork & Tafere, Kibrom & Tamru, Seneshaw, 2011. "Foodgrain consumption and calorie intake patterns in Ethiopia:," ESSP working papers 23, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    34. Montalbano, P. & Pietrelli, R. & Salvatici, L., 2018. "Participation in the market chain and food security: The case of the Ugandan maize farmers," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 81-98.
    35. Assefa, Thomas & Minten, Bart J., 2015. "Can agricultural traders be trusted? Evidence from Ethiopia," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 210964, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    36. Porteous, Obie C., 2015. "High Trade Costs and Their Consequences: An Estimated Model of African Agricultural Storage and Trade," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 205776, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    37. Cason, Timothy N. & Gangadharan, Lata, 2011. "Price discovery and intermediation in linked emissions trading markets: A laboratory study," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(7), pages 1424-1433, May.
    38. Sitko, Nicholas J. & Jayne, T.S., 2014. "Exploitative Briefcase Businessmen, Parasites, and Other Myths and Legends: Assembly Traders and the Performance of Maize Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 56-67.
    39. He, Qiao-Chu & Yang, Yun & Bai, Lingquan & Zhang, Baosen, 2020. "Smart energy storage management via information systems design," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    40. Assefa, Thomas Woldu & Minten, Bart, 2015. "Can agricultural traders be trusted? Evidence from urban coffee markets in Ethiopia:," ESSP working papers 72, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    41. Milford Anna B., 2012. "The Pro-Competitive Effect of Coffee Cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico," Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, De Gruyter, vol. 10(1), pages 1-29, March.
    42. Kopp, Thomas & Bümmer, Bernhard, 2015. "Moving rubber to a better place - and extracting rents from credit constrained farmers along the way," EFForTS Discussion Paper Series 9, University of Goettingen, Collaborative Research Centre 990 "EFForTS, Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)".
    43. Kopp, Thomas & Brummer, Bernhard, 2015. "Traders and Credit Constrained Farmers: Market Power along Indonesian Rubber Value Chains," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 212012, International Association of Agricultural Economists.

  3. Theresa Osborne, 2004. "Market News in Commodity Price Theory: Application to the Ethiopian Grain Market," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 71(1), pages 133-164.

    Cited by:

    1. Marco Letta & Pierluigi Montalbano & Guillaume Pierre, 2022. "Weather shocks, traders' expectations, and food prices," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 104(3), pages 1100-1119, May.
    2. Osborne, Theresa, 2005. "Imperfect competition in agricultural markets: evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 76(2), pages 405-428, April.
    3. Geraldo Costa Junior & Andrea Calef, 2023. "Precipitation events and local corn prices: evidence from Brazil," University of East Anglia School of Economics Working Paper Series 2023-04, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
    4. Nicolas Legrand, 2019. "The Empirical Merit Of Structural Explanations Of Commodity Price Volatility: Review And Perspectives," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(2), pages 639-664, April.
    5. Mark Coppejans & Donna Gilleskie & Holger Sieg & Koleman Strumpf, "undated". "Consumer Demand under Price Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence from the Market for Cigarettes," GSIA Working Papers 2006-E43, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business.
    6. Conte, Bruno & Piemontese, Lavinia & Tapsoba, Augustin, 2020. "The Power of Markets: Impact of Desert Locust Invasions on Child Health," TSE Working Papers 20-1069, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
    7. He, Xue-Zhong & Westerhoff, Frank H., 2005. "Commodity markets, price limiters and speculative price dynamics," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 29(9), pages 1577-1596, September.
    8. Nicolas Legrand & Christophe Gouel, 2022. "The Role of Storage in Commodity Markets: Indirect Inference Based on Grains Data," Working Papers hal-03809825, HAL.
    9. Emmanuel Paroissien, 2020. "Forecasting bulk prices of Bordeaux wines using leading indicators," Post-Print hal-02408202, HAL.
    10. Christophe C. Gouel, 2012. "Agricultural price instability: a survey of competing explanations and remedies," Post-Print hal-01001218, HAL.
    11. Durevall, Dick & Loening, Josef L. & Ayalew Birru, Yohannes, 2013. "Inflation dynamics and food prices in Ethiopia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 89-106.
    12. Fulgence J. Mishili & Anna A. Temu & Joan Fulton & J. Lowenberg-DeBoer, 2009. "Consumer Preferences As Drivers Of The Common Bean Trade In Tanzania: A Marketing Perspective," Working Papers 09-02, Purdue University, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    13. Tore S. Kleppe & Atle Oglend, 2019. "Can limits‐to‐arbitrage from bounded storage improve commodity term‐structure modeling?," Journal of Futures Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(7), pages 865-889, July.
    14. Christophe Gouel, 2020. "The Value of Public Information in Storable Commodity Markets: Application to the Soybean Market," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 102(3), pages 846-865, May.
    15. Riera, O. & Minten, B., 2018. "Mobile phones and agricultural market performance in Ethiopia," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277107, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    16. Merfeld, Joshua D., 2020. "Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India," IZA Discussion Papers 13682, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    17. Tadesse, G. & Badiane, O., 2018. "The Boundary of Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives in Africa: A Conceptual framework and empirical evidence from Ethiopia," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 276964, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    18. Francisco Arroyo Marioli, 2020. "Old crop versus new crop prices: Explaining the correlation," Journal of Futures Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 40(7), pages 1192-1208, July.
    19. Matthias Kalkuhl & Lukas Kornher & Matthias Kalkuhl & Irfan Mujahid, 2015. "Food price volatility in developing countries – the role of trade and storage," EcoMod2015 8415, EcoMod.
    20. Haile, Mekbib G & Kalkuhl, Matthias & Usman, Muhammed A, 2015. "Market information and smallholder farmer price expectations," African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, African Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 10(4), pages 1-15, December.
    21. Christophe Gouel, 2013. "Comparing numerical methods for solving the competitive storage model," Post-Print hal-01136976, HAL.
    22. Eugenio S.A. Bobenrieth & Juan R.A. Bobenrieth & Ernesto A. Guerra & Brian D. Wright & Di Zeng, 2021. "Putting the Empirical Commodity Storage Model Back on Track: Crucial Implications of a “Negligible” Trend," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(3), pages 1034-1057, May.
    23. Joshua D. Merfeld, 2023. "Labor elasticities, market failures, and misallocation: Evidence from Indian agriculture," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 54(5), pages 623-637, September.
    24. Merfeld, Joshua, 2021. "Misallocation and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315914, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    25. Kleppe, Tore Selland & Oglend, Atle, 2017. "Estimating the competitive storage model: A simulated likelihood approach," Econometrics and Statistics, Elsevier, vol. 4(C), pages 39-56.
    26. Loening, Josef L. & Durevall, Dick & Ayalew Birru, Yohannes, 2009. "Inflation Dynamics and Food Prices in an Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ethiopia," Working Papers in Economics 347, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
    27. Yang Liu & Liyan Han & Libo Yin, 2018. "Does news uncertainty matter for commodity futures markets? Heterogeneity in energy and non‐energy sectors," Journal of Futures Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 38(10), pages 1246-1261, October.
    28. Merfeld, Joshua D., 2022. "Labor Elasticities, Market Failures, and Misallocation: Evidence from Indian Agriculture," 96th Annual Conference, April 4-6, 2022, K U Leuven, Belgium 321214, Agricultural Economics Society - AES.
    29. Chaudhry, Muhammad Imran & Katchova, Ani & Miranda, Mario Javier, 2016. "Examining pricing mechanics in the poultry value chain - empirical evidence from Pakistan," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 235953, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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  1. NEP-TRE: Transport Economics (2) 2014-05-17 2014-08-25
  2. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (2) 2014-05-17 2014-08-25
  3. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (1) 2014-05-17
  4. NEP-LAM: Central and South America (1) 2014-08-25
  5. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2014-08-25

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