Determinants of the U.S. Wheat Producer Support Price: A Time Series Analysis

Public choice in agriculture is an emerging field in agricultural economic research. The paper's focus is on the determinants of the U.S. wheat producer support price. The econometric time-series analysis suggests that this price is largely determined by the previous price, the expected U.S. share in world exports, and expected program costs. Presidential elections also influence U.S. wheat price policies. All other things being equal, the support price tends to be lower in election years than in other years. This suggests that small interest groups' relative political economic power may be smaller in election years if they do not succeed in positioning themselves on the political economic market such that they contain the potentially decisive voter.Agricultural and Food Policy,

Determinants of Wages and Returns to Education in Rural India

This study focuses on estimating determinants of wages across primary, secondary and tertiary sectors in rural India by the type of work contract involved. Casual labourers, with short term work contracts and nearly absent benefits and wage employees, with long term work contracts, higher wages and benefits represent dual sections of the labour market. Here we demonstrate that human capital and other factors that has been proven to explain variation in wages in other labour markets, explain little about wages in casual employment sector. Further, pattern of returns to education for casual labourers were found to decrease with increasing educational levels and was negative for higher education. Such a trend was no t noticed among wage employees, where pattern that was similar with other studies focusing on the whole labour market.returns to education, wages, particular labour markets, Labor and Human Capital, J3, J4,

Die Neue Handelstheorie: Stiefkind der Agrar�konomie? - Einige Anwendungen f�r den Zuckermarkt

International Relations/Trade,

TOWARD A GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM

Since World War II barriers to international trade in industrial commodities have been reduced while barriers to agricultural commodity trade have become more severe. During the last several decades the world has experienced cycles of "food pessimism" and "food optimism." Nevertheless, as a result of technical change the terms at which the world's consumers can expect to have access to food appears to be more favorable in the future than in the past. If consumers are to have access to the greater abundance that can be made available, it will be necessary for developed market economies to reduce the distortions resulting from agricultural commodity and trade policies. It is in the interest of both producers and consumers, in developed and developing countries, that the world move toward an international trading regime in which agricultural commodities move across national borders at least as freely as financial resources.International Relations/Trade,

THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: A SURVEY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO U.S. AGRICULTURE

Agricultural and Food Policy,

AGRICULTURAL POLICY PREFERENCES: WHEAT IN THE UNITED STATES, 1981-1990

This paper outlines DEBET (Decision Based Economic Theory), a method for determining revealed preferences of governments. DEBET is applied to US wheat policy decisions in the 1980s. This method has a number of advantages over alternative approaches to the analysis of revealed preferences of government. It makes use of information contained in policy alternatives contemplated but not agreed upon, and it is suitable for modeling the discrete - continuous choice problem of policy makers in a multi-instrument context.Agricultural and Food Policy,

PUBLIC CHOICE IN INTERNATIONAL POLLUTION

Environmental Economics and Policy,

Komparative Kostennachteile: Agrar- und Ern�hrungsg�terproduktion von Entwicklungsl�ndern im internationalen Wettbewerb

International Development, International Relations/Trade,

ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF POSSIBLE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MARKET INTERVENTION IN SOYBEANS AND THEIR PRODUCTS

Crop Production/Industries, International Relations/Trade,

Welternährung: Qualität und Quantität!

Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Food Security and Poverty, International Development,