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assessingtheeffectsofseasonaltariffratequotasonvegetablepricesinswitzerland_journalofagruculturaleconomics_1
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Assessing the Effects of Seasonal Tariff‐rate Quotas on Vegetable Prices in Switzerland

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  • 2021
Published in:
  • Journal of Agricultural Economics. - Wiley. - 2021, vol. 72, no. 2, p. 607-627
Agricultural trade policies
Difference-in-differences
Inverse probability weighting
Price stability
Price volatility
Seasonal production
Stabilisation poli­cies
Swiss agriculture
Tariff-rate quotas
Vegetable production
English Causal estimation of the short-term effects o tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on veg­etable producer prices is hampered by the large variety and different growing sea­sons o vegetables and is therefore rarely performed. We quantify the effects of Swiss seasonal TRQs on domestic producer prices of a variety of vegetables based on a difference-in-differences estimation using a novel dataset of weekly producer prices for Switzerland and neighbouring countries. We find that TRQs increase prices of most vegetables by more than 20% above the prices in neighbouring coun­tries during the main harvest time for most vegetables and even more than 50% for some vegetables. The effects are stronger for more perishable vegetables and for conventionally produced ones compared with organic vegetables. However, we do not find clear-cut effects of TRQs on the week-to-week price volatility of vegetables although the overall lower price volatility in Switzerland compared with neighbouring countries might be a result o the TRQ system in place.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
Department
Département d'économie politique
Language
  • English
Classification
Economics
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Open access status
green
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