Testing for behavioral objective and aggregation opportunities in U.S. agricultural data

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 195-207

  Williams, Shon P ^a   Shumway, C Richard ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Aggregation; Homothetic separability; Nonparametric tests; Profit maximization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039154426     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3180281     Document Type: Article

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