@article{daSilva:342049,
      recid = {342049},
      author = {da Silva, César Roberto Leite and de Carvalho, Maria  Auxiliadora},
      title = {Distribution of benefits of agricultural price stability  among consumers},
      journal = {Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (RESR)},
      address = {2003-01},
      number = {2541-2024-2273},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {Several studies have suggested that price stabilization  distributes benefits among groups in society. This paper  analyzes the distribution of benefits resulting from the  stabilization of agricultural prices among consumers of the  São Paulo metropolitan region resulting from the 1994 Real  Plan. A measure of instability was made of the price series  for 19 important agriculture products in food., between  1989 and 1998, to test the effectiveness of the Real Plan  in stabilizing prices. To calculate the distribution of  benefits of stabilization among consumers stratified  according to income level, an estimate was first made of  the coefficient of distribution of spending on food. Next,  the coefficients of distribution were estimated for a set  of nineteen agricultural products important in family  diets. The data for family budgets were taken from the IBGE  Family Budget Study for 1996, and the price series for  agriculture products are from the Institute of Agricultural  Economics (Instituto de Economia Agrícola). The results  indicate that, in the aggregate, food price stabilization  had greater benefits for lower income consumers. However,  an individual examination of products suggests that the  consumers of higher income strata benefit proportionally  more from stabilization of prices of products with a high  income-elasticity of demand.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/342049},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.342049},
}