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Processing Industry Capacity and the Welfare Effects of Sugar Policies

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  • Jeffrey C. Williams
  • Brooke A. Isham

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Normally, analysis of policies affecting commodities such as sugar employs long-run comparative statics under certainty and ignores processing industries like cane-sugar refining, under the implicit assumption that the capital is malleable in both the short and long run. We present a dynamic model, calibrated to world sugar and solved with numerical dynamic programming, that includes the specific capital of the refining industry. When compared to an otherwise identical static model, the dynamic model suggests that some 20% of welfare losses may be misattributed to cane-sugar producers instead of refiners. In contrast, the difference between certainty and uncertainty proves to be unimportant. Copyright 1999, Oxford University Press.

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  • Jeffrey C. Williams & Brooke A. Isham, 1999. "Processing Industry Capacity and the Welfare Effects of Sugar Policies," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 81(2), pages 424-441.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:81:y:1999:i:2:p:424-441
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    1. Robinson, Elizabeth J.Z. & Albers, Heidi J. & Williams, Jeffrey C., 2008. "Spatial and temporal modeling of community non-timber forest extraction," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 56(3), pages 234-245, November.
    2. Irena Benešová & Helena Řezbová & Luboš Smutka & Karel Tomšík & Adriana Laputková, 2015. "European Sugar Market - Impact of Quota System," Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, Mendel University Press, vol. 63(6), pages 1825-1838.

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