Inside the black box: The price linkage and transmission between energy and agricultural markets

Energy Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-194

  Du, Xiaodong ^a   McPhail, Lihong Lu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Identification through heteroscedasticity; Structural change; Structural VAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864984942     PISSN: 01956574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.5547/01956574.33.2.8     Document Type: Article

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