Food Supply Management and Tariffication: A Game Theoretic Approach

Schmitz Troy G. and Andrew Schmitz
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Schmitz Troy G.: Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2002, vol. 1, issue 1, 21

Abstract: We compare the current Canadian supply management regime in which producers and importers benefit from rent-seeking activities that set production quota and import quota levels with those under a tariff, in which producers partakes in rent-seeking activities in order to induce the government to introduce a favorable tariff regime. We explore two different quota-setting games: (1) the import quota and production quota are set at a level that arises from a Cournot-Nash equilibrium between producers and importers; and (2) the producer marketing board acts as a Stackelberg leader, taking into account the importers' reaction to its production quota level. We compare these quota-setting games with two different tariff-setting games: (1) A non-cooperative game in which the government sets the tariff at a level that maximizes tariff revenue; and (2) A cooperative game in which producers, through rent-seeking activities, induce the government to set the tariff at a level that maximizes joint government and producer rents.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1006

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