Reallocating sugar beet contracts: Can sugar production survive in Denmark?

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Bogetoft, Peter ^a,b   Boye, Kristoffer ^a   Neergaard Petersen, Henrik ^a   Nielsen, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Double auction; Price tatonnement; Reallocation; Structural inefficiency

Indexed keywords

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS;

EID: 34047152161     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbm002     Document Type: Article

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