Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "agricultural policy"
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Optimal agricultural policy and PSE measurement : an assessment and application to Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-10)The producer support estimate (the successor to the producer support equivalent) calculated by the OECD is widely used as an indicator of distortions created by agricultural policies. In this paper we demonstrate that ... -
Optimal provision of public goods : implications for support to agriculture
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)This paper summarises a decade of research by the authors into the welfare economic foundations for agricultural policy. The main results are that the levels of support to agriculture in rich developed countries like ... -
Regional growth in Western Europe : detecting spatial misspecification using the R environment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)The work discussed in Bivand and Brunstad (2003) was an attempt to throw light on apparent variability in regional convergence in relation to agriculture as a sector subject to powerful political measures, in Western ...