State Trading Enterprises and Revenue Gains from Market Power: The Case of Barley Marketing and the Canadian Wheat Board

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 596-615

  Schmitz, Troy G ^a   Gray, Richard ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Wheat Board; Feed barley; Malting barley; Market power; Price discrimination; Selection rates; State trading; Trade disputes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034363164     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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