Decomposing input adjustments under price and production uncertainty

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 20-34

  Chambers, Robert G ^a,b   Quiggin, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Duality; Input use; State contingent technology; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000808692     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0002-9092.00134     Document Type: Article

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