Price dynamics in the international wheat market: Modeling with error correction and directed acyclic graphs

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-33

  Bessler, David A ^a   Yang, Jian ^b   Wongcharupan, Metha ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; MARKET CONDITIONS; PRICE DYNAMICS; WHEAT;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0037302572     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9787.00287     Document Type: Article

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