Pricing of herbicide-tolerant soybean seeds: A Market-structure approach

AgBioForum

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 326-333

  Shi, Guanming ^a   Chavas, Jean Paul ^a   Stiegert, Kyle W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Imperfect competition; Pricing; Seed; Vertical structures

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 77954358822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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