Price thresholds, price volatility, and the private costs of investment in a developing country grain market

Economic Modelling

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 399-414

  Shively, Gerald E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C32; D4; D81; Food price variability; Ghana; Investment under uncertainty; Q13; Threshold ARCH

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011126252     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-9993(00)00046-8     Document Type: Article

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