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Title: The future of the European sugar market: A case for quotas
Authors: Boussard, Jean-Marc
Keywords: quotas
cobweb
market
Issue Date: 2008
Abstract: The advertised EC policy toward sugar is clearly to let market drive supply and demand. But there exist reasons to think that the setting up of the traditional quota policy was not a consequence of chance, or of an efficient lobbying system by farmers, but of practical necessity and of efficiency, in face of market failures. In view of this reasoning, it is not impossible that a large crisis in the more or less remote future leads to reinstall a sugar quota system which probably should had to be reformed, but should never have been suppressed.
Notes: Replaced with revised version of paper 10/22/08.
URI: http://purl.umn.edu/44069
Institution/Association: European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
Total Pages: 4
Collections:2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium

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