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An Econometric Model of Aggregate Food Marketing Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Kuang-Hsing Terence Lin  and
Stanley K. Seaver
Kuang-Hsing Terence Lin
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Connecticut
Stanley K. Seaver
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Connecticut
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The purpose of the study is to describe quantitatively a market model of food marketing services for the post-W.W. II United States.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , April 1976 , pp. 51 - 62
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Thanks are due to Messrs. W. F. Lott, J. W. Levedahl, and unknown Journal reviewers for comments on previous drafts.

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