Credit market imperfections and the distribution of policy rents

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1124-1139

  Ciaian, Pavel ^a   Swinnen, Johan F M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Centre for European Policy Studies CEPS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy; Imperfect credit markets; Policy rents

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CREDIT PROVISION; FINANCIAL MARKET; MODELING; RENTAL SECTOR; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

EID: 70149116121     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2009.01311.x     Document Type: Article

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