Direct payments, spatial competition, and farm survival in Norway

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1192-1205

  Storm, Hugo ^a   Mittenzwei, Klaus ^b   Heckelei, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c Economic and Agricultural Policy ILR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct payments; Farm structural change; Land market; Policy assessment; Spatial competition

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL LAND; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); LAND MARKET; POLICY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

NORWAY;

EID: 84941588280     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aau085     Document Type: Article

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