Natural endowments, production technologies and the quality of wines in Bordeaux. Does terroir matter?

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 529, 2008, Pages

  Gergaud, Olivier ^a   Ginsburgh, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

AQUITAINE; BORDEAUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GIRONDE; WESTERN EUROPE;

VITACEAE;

EID: 44649202727     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02146.x     Document Type: Article

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