The role of transportation costs in the economics of commodity markets

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 339-353

  Roehner, Bertrand M ^a  

^a Public Assistance Hospitals of Paris   (France)

Author keywords

Commodity markets; Potatoes; Price differentials; Price volatility; Spatial arbitrage; Transportation costs; Wheat

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL GOODS; COMMODITY MARKET; CONCEPTUAL APPROACH; ENKE-SAMUELSON MODEL; MODELLING APPROACH; SPATIAL ARBITRAGE; TRANSPORT COST;

EID: 0030405409     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1243707     Document Type: Article

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