Market reforms, spatial price dynamics, and China's rice market integration: A causal analysis with directed acyclic graphs

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-76

  Awokuse, Titus O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graphs; Grain prices; Interregional trade; Market liberalization; Spatial price dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248545620     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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