Assessing the Vulnerability to Price Spikes in Agricultural Commodity Markets
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Agricultural Economics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0021-857X,1477-9552
DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12377