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| Niemi, Jyrki S.; Fahlbeck, Erik; Hofreither, Markus F.. |
| Ten years ago, Austria, Finland, and Sweden joined the EU. The application of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) caused major repercussions on the agricultural sectors of the entering countries. This article analyses the welfare effects of accession to the EU on the agricultural markets in Austria, Finland and Sweden in a simple supply and demand framework, which is kept strictly identical across all three countries. The quantitative results of the study are derived by using standard partial equilibrium comparative static analysis in the Marshallian economic surplus framework. Using this method, the welfare effects are calculated for eight major cereal and livestock commodities produced in Austria, Finland, and Sweden by comparing the evolution of the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Integration; EU; CAP; Austria; Finland; Sweden; Welfare analysis; International Relations/Trade; Q11; Q17. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24767 |
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| Eriksson, Clas; Fahlbeck, Erik. |
| It is well documented that consumers tend to be patriotic in their choices of food. This paper theoretically examines the consequences of such patriotic behavior for agricultural policy, assuming that the policy is decided by the median voter. The analysis is conducted in the framework of a small open economy, with a ricardian production structure. Consumers differ with respect to how much extra they are prepared to pay for a domestically produced agricultural good. The indirect utility functions are used to find the specific values of tariffs and agricultural subsidies that the various households prefer. For the tariff we find that only the group that buys the domestically produced agricultural good will favor a strictly positive tariff. This tariff is... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Trade; Policy; European perspective; International Relations/Trade; Q17; Q18. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24681 |
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