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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"producer welfare"”.
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The impact of food geography on consumer and producer welfare
… stores in food deserts and a relatively small welfare impact of living in a food desert, at least for those who can travel to neighboring census tracts to shop. The second chapter of my dissertation studies whether better availability or lower prices of fruits and vegetables in food deserts …
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The Effects of Water Quality Policies Under Alternative Representations of Farmer Behavior
… will not necessarily be achieved across producer types with policies designed for profit-maximizing producers. Thus, producers with other motives must be considered in the formulation of pollution policies. Further, those policies which lead to shifts in the timing of nitrogen …
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Agricultural policy analysis under costly enforcement : an economic analysis of cheating
… subsidies and decoupled area payments results in welfare gains for producers that constitute a direct transfer from taxpayers. When, however, an output quota scheme is in effect, above-quota production results in losses for producers and welfare gains for consumers. The penalties on detected …
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The Effectiveness Of Market Development Programs For U.S. Dairy Products
… on increasing foreign demand and enhancing producers' revenues. The analysis is based on two econometric models. An import demand equation based on panel data is derived to measure the responsiveness of U.S. dairy import demand in various countries to dairy export promotion. The Armington …
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Effects of economic transition policies on Yugoslavia's agricultural sector: A quantitative approach
… their price (cost) implications, consumers' and producer' welfare, trade revenues, machinery transfer from state to private sector, wages, and overall performance (output) of the agricultural sector. Bilevel programming is used as the methodology because it recognizes different objectives of …
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Three essays on the idiosyncrasies of a perennial crop : the case of the US almond market
The United States (US) is the dominant global producer and exporter of almonds, and its exports are sensitive to both the supply and demand in other countries. In the first essay a proposed framework that captures supply idiosyncrasies of perennial crops is developed to estimate the excess demand …
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Three essays evaluating tradeoffs in agricultural decision making
… examine the tradeoffs made at the individual producer level while the last two papers examine tradeoffs made at the national policy level. The first paper investigates farmer attitudes towards how a hypothetical set of production practices referred to as "]conservation agriculture" will affect …
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Trade and agriculture policy options to improve the wheat subsector in Afghanistan
… of trade and stockholding policies on prices and welfare of producers and consumers. Modeling results suggest that trade policy is effective mainly in trimming the upper tail of price distributions and thus mostly improving consumer welfare. Also, a trade policy is not as effective in stabilizing …