Returns to public investments in agriculture with imperfect downstream competition

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 830-838

  Hamilton, Stephen F ^b   Sunding, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Imperfect competition; Oligopoly; Oligopsony; Research benefits

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; COMPETITION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INVESTMENT;

EID: 0032321529     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244067     Document Type: Article

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