Are "decoupled" farm program payments really decoupled? An empirical evaluation

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-89

  Goodwin, Barry K ^a   Mishra, Ashok K ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acreage response; Decoupled payments; WTO green box

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33644771256     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00839.x     Document Type: Article

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