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Canada, together with other developed countries, faces an increasingly sophisticated consumer in an increasingly differentiated and competitive marketplace. Over the last two decades, the Canadian beef industry has suffered from a decline in per capita beef consumption. One of the contributing...

Previous studies of the effects of agricultural trade policy reform have treated internal policies for supply-managed commodities as exogenous. In the authors' model, however, quotas on imports, are chosen jointly with domestic production quotas to balance total welfare and its distribution...

This paper examines the importance of monetary macroeconomic variables on Canadian agricultural prices using vector autoregressive modeling. The research results suggest that U.S. monetary macroeconomic policy, as represented by the U.S./world exchange rate, is the most significant monetary...

Beginning in 1971, initial payments for Canadian Wheat Board grains were announced prior to planting. The intention was to influence producer expectations and, hence, crop supply. Using a novel estimation procedure designed to conserve degrees of freedom, it is concluded that the new information...