Production risk and technical inefficiency in Russian agriculture

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-118

  Bokusheva, Raushan ^a   Hockmann, Heinrich ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Panel data; Production risk; Russian agriculture; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745586539     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbi036     Document Type: Article

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