Functional forms, exogenous shifts, and economic surplus changes

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1243-1251

  Zhao, Xueyan ^a   Mullen, John D ^b   Griffith, Gary R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Economic surplus; Equilibrium displacement modeling; Exogenous shift; Functional form

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038424703     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244281     Document Type: Article

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