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| Goodhue, Rachael E.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T.; Simon, Leo K.. |
| We consider the impact of taxes on the quantity and quality produced of goods whose market values accrue with age. The analysis is motivated by the high and increasing taxation rates in the wine industry across the globe. If society values both quality and quantity as goods, an optimal tax system would never reduce the quality marketed, though it necessarily reduces quantity. Any two-tax system that includes a volumetric sales tax and any one of three other types of tax an ad valorem sales tax, an ad valorem storage tax, or a volumetric storage tax spans the quality/revenue space and can support an optimal tax system. Any tax system that reduces quality relative to the market equilibrium with no taxes could increase tax revenues and reduce the quality... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25021 |
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| Carter, Colin A.; Chalfant, James A.; Goodhue, Rachael E.; Groves, Kiara; Simon, Leo K.. |
| Environmental regulation of agriculture is becoming increasingly important, and growers are increasingly concerned about the effects of regulations on their profitability. Regulations governing the use of a pesticide affect its economic value. Further, growers often face a choice among pesticide alternatives, each with its own set of regulatory restrictions. In this environment, the introduction of a new regulation can have complex effects on growers' profit-maximizing pesticide choices. Buffer zones and regional emissions caps mean that pesticide choices can have important spatial components. Our paper presents an optimization model that incorporates spatial considerations at the field and regional level. We apply our model to fumigant choice by... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20166 |
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| Rausser, Gordon C.; Simon, Leo K.. |
| This paper extends the Stahl-Rubinstein model of bilateral bargaining to incorporate many players and multidimensional issue spaces. A central feature of our framework is that in each round of negotiations, a proposer is selected randomly. Our bargaining model consists of a sequence of finite-horizon games, in which the horizon increases without bound. A solution to our model is a limit of equilibrium outcomes for the finite horizon games. A necessary condition for existence of a deterministic solution is that the limit outcome belongs to the core of the underlying bargaining problem. Solutions, if they exist, are generically unique. Two sets of sufficiency conditions for existence are presented. The paper concludes with examples and applications. In... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 1992 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7198 |
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| Kashtanova, Elena G.; Leeds, Elke M.; Rivera, William M.; Mandler, Andreas; Imami, Drini; Leonetti, Luciano; Stefanllari, Andi; Zhllima, Edvin; Dajnoki, Krisztina; Peto, Karoly; Grasselli, Norbert; Drejerska, Nina; Ziolkowska, Jadwiga; Simon, Leo K.; Appel, Franziska; Ostermeyer, Arlette; Milic, Branislav B.; Leshem, Asaf; Aenis, Thomas; Grotz, Patrick Artur; Tang, Lixia; Nagel, Uwe Jens; Hoffmann, Volker; Ahrorov, Farhod; Djanibekov, Nodir; Lamers, John P.A.; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor. |
| This volume of proceedings, available as both a hard copy and a pdf file, is an edited compilation of selected contributions to the Conference on Modern Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe (MACE) 2010, held in Berlin, Germany, at the ICC on the 13th and 14th of January 2010. We would like to thank all those persons and organizations who contributed to the realisation of the MACE Conference 2010 as well as to this edited volume. First of all, we thank all presenters, whose commitment made the conference possible. The conference would not have been successful without the active engagement of such a large number of colleagues from IAMO, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Council for Tropical and Sub-Tropical Agricultural Research (ATSAF). Thanks to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; Labor and Human Capital; Political Economy; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96199 |
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| Karp, Larry S.; Simon, Leo K.. |
| We examine the size of stable coalitions in a participation game that has been used to model international environmental agreements, cartel formation, R&D spillovers, and monetary policy. The literature to date has relied on parametric examples; based on these examples, a consensus has emerged that in this kind of game, the equilibrium coalition size is small, except possibly when the potential benefits of cooperation are also small. In this paper, we develop a non-parametric approach to the problem, and demonstrate that the conventional wisdom is not robust. In a general setting, we identify conditions under which the equilibrium coalition size can be large even when potential gains are large. Contrary to previously examined leading special cases, we... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Stable coalitions; Participation game; International Environmental Agreement; Climate agreement; Trans-boundary pollution; Investment spillovers; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123717 |
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| Baylis, Katherine R.; Casamatta, Georges; Peplow, Stephen; Rausser, Gordon C.; Simon, Leo K.. |
| The EU has argued that some agricultural subsidies are needed to provide the optimal amount of externalities (both positive and negative) produced by agriculture. The argument is that agriculture is "multifunctional" and externalities such as rural development and landscape would be underproduced, while some forms of pollution (such as nitrogen runoff) would be overproduced without government intervention. Meanwhile, the United States has raised the concern that multifunctionality is primarily an argument to transfer income to producers. In this paper, we discuss the motivation for the EU agri-environmental measures and empirically test for those underlying causes. We find that the programs are not targeted at those regions with the highest... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19297 |
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| Baylis, Katherine R.; Peplow, Stephen; Rausser, Gordon C.; Simon, Leo K.. |
| The EU has argued that some agricultural subsidies are needed to provide the optimal amount of externalities (both positive and negative) produced by agriculture. The argument is that agriculture is "multifunctional" and externalities such as rural development and landscape would be underproduced, while some forms of pollution (such as nitrogen runoff) would be overproduced without government intervention. Meanwhile, the United States has raised the concern that multifunctionality is primarily an argument to transfer income to producers. One way to try and determine how much of these non-commodity payments are directed to externalities and how much is intended to distribute income to producers is to analyze the variation of the programs among the... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24162 |
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| Rausser, Gordon C.; Scotchmer, Suzanne; Simon, Leo K.. |
| In the past several years, the seed industry worldwide has been dramatically restructured, mostly through mergers and acquisitions. We argue that the restructuring has been technologically driven, and has also resulted in the transformation of several chemical conglomerates into life-science firms. We discuss why the restructuring has mostly occurred through mergers rather than contractual relationships such as licensing, and investigate its efficiency implications, both as it concerns anticompetitive effects and the joint use of complementary assets. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7156 |
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| Baylis, Katherine R.; Peplow, Stephen; Rausser, Gordon C.; Simon, Leo K.. |
| European Union (EU) agri-environmental programmes (AEPs) represent a significant step in the region's efforts to decouple agricultural output from production and export subsidies. While AEPs comprise only a small share of EU agricultural support, they have two possible external impacts: 1) the composition of the EU's imports and exports may change as their producers become more market responsive; and 2) the WTO's Green Box (subsides considered minimally trade distorting and hence not disciplined) may become increasingly contentious. Our concern is with the drivers of AEPs in the EU and their implications for Canada. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24149 |
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