Chinese domestic textile demand: Where they buy does matter

China Agricultural Economic Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 312-327

  Macdonald, Stephen ^a   Pan, Suwen ^b   Hudson, Darren ^c   Tuan, Francis ^b  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese textile demand; Distribution channels; Elasticities; LAIDS; LES; Non nested tests; Price and income; QAIDS; QES

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883355093     PISSN: 1756137X     EISSN: 17561388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CAER-12-2011-0165     Document Type: Article

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