The impact of market and policy instability on price transmission between wheat and flour in Ukraine

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 203-230

  Brümmer, Bernhard ^a   Von Cramon Taubadel, Stephan ^a   Zorya, Sergiy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain policy; Markov switching vector error correction model; Regime shifts; Ukraine; Vertical price transmission

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 68649085154     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbp021     Document Type: Article

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