Price transmission and market power in a transition context: Evidence from the Polish fluid milk sector

Post-Communist Economies

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 513-529

  Fałkowski, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAIRY FARMING; DEMAND ANALYSIS; MARKET TRANSITION; MILK PRODUCTION; PRICE DYNAMICS; VECTOR;

POLAND;

EID: 78149396952     PISSN: 14631377     EISSN: 14653958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2010.518477     Document Type: Article

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