The impact of cross-sectional data aggregation on the measurement of vertical price transmission: An experiment with German food prices

Agribusiness

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 505-522

  Von Cramon Taubadel, Stephan ^a   Loy, Jens Peter ^b   Meyer, Jochen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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EID: 77954494049     PISSN: 07424477     EISSN: 15206297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/agr.20100     Document Type: Article

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