The Value of ENSO Information to Agriculture: Consideration of Event Strength and Trade

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 368-385

  Chen, Chi Chung ^a   McCarl, Bruce A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural sector model (ASM); El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Spatial equilibrium model; Stochastic programming; Value of information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367983     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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