Grain price volatility in a small open economy

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-98

  Roche, Maurice J ^a   McQuinn, Kieran ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Rural Economy Research Centre Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Error correction; Grain prices; Multivariate ARCH; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038201669     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/30.1.77     Document Type: Article

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