Are price controls necessarily bad? The case of rice in Vietnam

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 215-232

  Ghosh, Madanmohan ^a,b   Whalley, John ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b INDUSTRY CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

General equilibrium; Price controls; Rice; Tax mix; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; AGRICULTURAL PRICE; PRICING POLICY; RICE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 0942278131     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2003.03.004     Document Type: Article

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