The Effects of Domestic Agricultural Policy Reform on Environmental Quality

James A. Tobey and Kenneth Reinert ()

No 270891, 1990 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Vancouver, Canada from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Both policy reform and environmental quality portend to be major agricultural issues in this decade. We develop a stylized general equilibrium model of the United States economy to empirically study whether success in addressing the former issue is consistent with the achievement of the latter. Policy experiments show that the level of agricultural surface water damages are indeed quite sensitive to policy reform--providing the greatest environmental benefits when land and fertilizers are highly substitutable. These results suggest that policy reform may in the long run provide an inexpensive partial answer to the environmental problem associated with agricultural production.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 1990-08-05
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270891

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