Browsing Discussion papers (SAM) by Author "Brunstad, Rolf Jens"
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Efficiency losses in milk marketing boards : the importance of exports
Brunstad, Rolf Jens; Gaasland, Ivar; Vårdal, Erling (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-02)A milk marketing board (MMB) is a well known instrument for regulating the markets for dairy products. MMBs are based on price discrimination, and receipts from sales are pooled so that the farmers receive a single price ... -
Optimal agricultural policy and PSE measurement : an assessment and application to Norway
Blandford, David; Brunstad, Rolf Jens; Gaasland, Ivar; Vårdal, Erling (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
Brunstad, Rolf Jens; Gaasland, Ivar; Vårdal, Erling (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 : an empirical exploration of interactions with agriculture and agricultural policy
Bivand, Roger S.; Brunstad, Rolf Jens (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-01)Studies of convergence of regional growth in Western Europe have given varying results, depending on the addition of conditioning variables and estimation methods, as well as underlying models. This exploration adds ... -
Regional growth in Western Europe : detecting spatial misspecification using the R environment
Bivand, Roger S.; Brunstad, Rolf Jens (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 ...