How has the EU milk quota affected patterns of herd-size change?

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 497-527

  Huettel, Silke ^a   Jongeneel, Roel ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Markov chain; milk quota; structural change

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053532130     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbq050     Document Type: Article

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