Tobacco production in China is influenced by a government-set procurement price for tobacco leaf, and an excise tax on tobacco leaf revenue. This study examines the increase in the procurement price needed to keep tax revenue constant in the face of a 50% reduction in the tax rate. This...

Subsidies for nonprice export promotion can harm domestic consumers by increasing price in the domestic market and by diverting funds from domestic market promotion. Taking these consumer impacts into account, we find that federal expenditures for nonprice export promotion of farm products may...

Stepwise model selection criteria were tested against the restrictive forms to determine the appropriate model and to confirm the law of one price for the US soybeans. Analysis shows less than one international price transmission and exchange rate elasticities in the long run indicate an...

This paper examines regional differences in obesity rates, Body Mass Index (BMI) and dietary quality, using data from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Mobile Examination Center (MEC). For women, BMI and obesity prevalence may be higher in the Deep South...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure and examine the relationships between market power, scale economy and productivity for several important food and tobacco industries in China. Design/methodology/approach: The model applied in this paper is based on Hall’s framework (Hall,...

Purpose: The emergence of mega-farms in middle-income countries like Brazil and Ukraine and the efforts to consolidate small farms into larger ones in China and elsewhere have suggested that new institutional arrangements and technology progress may increase the significant farm economies of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the increase in the cigarette excise tax needed to keep tax revenue constant in the face of the cancellation of the tobacco leaf tax. Design/methodology/approach – Equilibrium-displacement model was employed to simulate the substitution...