Measuring the social costs of suboptimal combinations of policy instruments: A general framework and an example

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 249-259

  Bullock, D S ^a   Salhofer, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Department of Economics   (Austria)

Author keywords

Policy instruments; Social costs; Suboptimal combinations

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CROP PRODUCTION; METHODOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032577438     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5150(98)00022-X     Document Type: Article

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