Estimating Pricing Games in the Wheat-handling Market in Saskatchewan: The Role of a Major Cooperative

Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL., 2007, Pages 151-182

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Goddard, Ellen ^a   Lerohl, Mel ^a  

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EID: 33847111061     PISSN: 08853339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3339(06)10006-X     Document Type: Review

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