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This study attempted to analyze price transmission of the domestic rice market in Myanmar. Six domestic rice markets were chosen and the weekly wholesale rice prices period from April 2009 to December 2012 were enclose. Engel-Granger (1987) two step co-integration tests were employed to examine the long run equilibrium of rice price markets and error correction model (ECM) were used to test open up the mobile phone use weather effects the short run adjustment or not. Empirical results show that all of these time series are non-stationary in level price and stationary in fist different level were observe in unit root test. The outcome of Engel-Granger co-integration test displayedthat long run equilibrium are exist in all case of selected market pairs. In case of error correction model (ECM) exhibit open up mobile phone uses will accelerated the speed of short run adjustment, i.e. open up mobile phone uses have a positive effect in domestic rice price transmission.
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