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Four Approaches to Commodity Market Stabilization: A Comparative Analysis

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  • Joseph Glauber
  • Peter Helmberger
  • Mario Miranda

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The effects of four alternative price stabilization programs for soybeans are compared using a rational expectations model and simulation. For a given government expenditure, subsidized private storage is the most efficient way to stabilize market price. For a given deadweight loss, a program of direct payments is the most efficient stabilizer of the effective farm price; this program does not stabilize market price. All four programs, including a buffer stock program and one involving both direct payments and buffer stocks, tend to destabilize quasi-rent. Programs that involve an initial build-up of stocks increase producer benefits and hurt consumers.

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  • Joseph Glauber & Peter Helmberger & Mario Miranda, 1989. "Four Approaches to Commodity Market Stabilization: A Comparative Analysis," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 71(2), pages 326-337.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:71:y:1989:i:2:p:326-337.
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    1. Christophe Gouel, 2012. "Agricultural Price Instability: A Survey Of Competing Explanations And Remedies," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(1), pages 129-156, February.
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    5. Femenia, Fabienne, 2012. "Should private storage be subsidized to stabilize agricultural markets after price support schemes are removed?:," IFPRI discussion papers 1205, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    6. Gouel, Christophe, 2013. "Optimal food price stabilisation policy," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 118-134.
    7. Femenia, Fabienne, 2012. "Should private storage be subsidized to stabilize agricultural markets once price support schemes are removed? A General Equilibrium analysis applied to European reforms," Conference papers 330253, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
    8. Femenia, Fabienne, 2011. "To Subsidize or Not to Subsidize Private Storage? Evaluation of the Effects of Private Storage Subsidies as an Instrument to Stabilize Agricultural Markets After CAP Reforms," 2011 International Congress, August 30-September 2, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland 114360, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    9. Krause, Joyce Hall & Brorsen, B. Wade, 1995. "Outcomes of government corn support policies under alternate assumptions of risk," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 17(3), pages 279-291, June.
    10. Kennedy P. Lynn & Schmitz Andrew & van Kooten G. Cornelis, 2020. "The Role of Storage and Trade in Food Security," Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, De Gruyter, vol. 18(1), pages 1-13, January.

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