State Trading Deregulation and Prairie Durum Wheat Production

Colin Carter and Shon Ferguson

No 1297, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: We estimate the impact of the 2012 removal of the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) single-desk on the spatial pattern of durum wheat acres in Western Canada. We analyze changes in durum seeded acres with a panel regression and Census Agricultural Region data from 2004–2016. Our results indicate that removal of the CWB single-desk had a significant impact on total durum production in Western Canada. In addition, we find that the spatial distribution of durum wheat acres shifted towards drier areas, an improvement in the efficiency of resource allocation.​

Keywords: tate trading enterprises; Deregulation; Agricultural regulation; Comparative advantage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L43 Q17 Q18 R12 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2019-08-22
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