Commercial disappearance and composite demand for food with an application to U.S. meats

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-70

  Reed, Albert J ^a   Levedahl, J William ^a   Clark, J Stephen ^b  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Commodity aggregation; Composite Commodity Theorem; Composite demand; Generalized Composite Commodity Theorem; Quantity quality decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038241698     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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