Stock market response to food safety regulations

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 571-595

  Mazzocchi, Mario ^a   Ragona, Maddalena ^a   Fritz, Melanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event study; Firm value; Food contaminants; Market returns; State space models

Indexed keywords

EID: 76949102358     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbp043     Document Type: Article

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