Agricultural contracting and the scale of production

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-271

  Key, Nigel ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Marketing contracts; Production contracts; Risk; Scale of production; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244390005     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500005827     Document Type: Article

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