Demand for Herbicide in Corn: An Entropy Approach Using Micro-Level Data

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 204-221

  Arndt, Channing ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored dependent variables; Demand systems; Herbicides; Maximum entropy; Reservation prices

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033448405     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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