Forecasting errors in the absence of a futures market: The seasonal allocation of wheat supplies in India

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 184-193

  Ramaswami, Bharat ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; PRICING POLICY; WHEAT;

INDIA;

EID: 0033931641     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9361.00087     Document Type: Article

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