Two-step econometric estimation of farm characteristics affecting marketing contract decisions

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 88-102

  Katchova, Ani L ^a   Miranda, Mario J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Farm characteristics; Marketing contracts; Multinomial logit; Poisson; Probit; Tobit; Truncated models

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ECONOMETRICS; MARKETING; METHODOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1342309975     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00564.x     Document Type: Article

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