In this paper we use a price endogenous mathematical model to estimate the national welfare losses induced by the Norwegian dairy policy. Firstly, we focus on welfare losses at the processing level due to price discrimination between different uses of the milk and cross-subsidization of export....

This paper explores under what circumstances high-quality producers would not voluntarily submit grading when low-quality firms would readily do sa, and under what conditions high-quality firms would have a lesser proportion if their ouput graded than low-quality counterparts. It also...

This paper presents (1) a conceptual framework for structural change when farms may be multiproduct or specialized and (2) an econometrics of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the...

This paper tests market co-integration, market leadership and price margins in the context of the recent development of European markets for imported off-season fresh fruit countries in the southern hemisphere. The Engle-Garner and Johansen co-integration tests show that the main European...

In a process of world economic domination by an agro-industrial and agro-tertiary food system, the author wonders about the feasibility of an alternative model. The intensive agro-industrial model (financiarized, concentrated, specialized and globalized), allows remarkable results in terms of...

The paper is organized into seven major sections. The first focuses on general employment patterns in Canada; the second compare employment patterns across sectors, the third describes employment patterns in the agri-food sector, the forth looks at full time part time employment patterns; the fifth...