Meat meets meta: A quantitative review of the price elasticity of meat

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 258-272

  Gallet, Craig A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

meat demand; meta analysis; price elasticity

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEMAND ELASTICITY; MEAT; META-ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; PRICE DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956580428     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aap008     Document Type: Article

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