On 1 January 1989 the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement went into effect. The agreement reduced the restrictions on the importation and marketing of wine produced in the United States. This article analyzes the impact lessening on United States wine exports to Canada. A demand relation...

This article is the first of its kind to estimate econometrically the supply elasticity of California wine grapes. Wine grapes constitute the single largest crop in the state of California in terms of total receipts. Allowing for the dynamic adjustments of quasi-fixed inputs, we estimate...

This paper presents a theory of price determination for winegrapes in California. As the California wine economy developed, winegrape contracts took on a role as one of the centerpieces of this transformation. The theory is presented and it is shown how two important factors, weather and fi...