《Assessing the effects of seasonal tariff-rate quotas on vegetable prices
in Switzerland》
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作者:
Daria Loginova, Marco Portmann, Martin Huber
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最新提交年份:
2020
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英文摘要:
Causal estimation of the short-term effects of tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on vegetable producer prices is hampered by the large variety and different growing seasons of 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 of the TRQ system in place.
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中文摘要:
关税配额(TRQ)对蔬菜生产者价格的短期影响的因果估计受到蔬菜品种繁多和不同生长季节的阻碍,因此很少进行。我们使用瑞士和邻国每周生产者价格的新数据集,基于差异估计,量化了瑞士季节性关税配额对各种蔬菜国内生产者价格的影响。我们发现,在大多数蔬菜的主要收获期,关税配额使大多数蔬菜的价格比邻国的价格高出20%以上,有些蔬菜甚至高出50%以上。与有机蔬菜相比,对易腐蔬菜和传统生产蔬菜的影响更大。然而,我们没有发现关税配额对蔬菜每周价格波动的明确影响,尽管与邻国相比,瑞士整体价格波动较低可能是关税配额制度的结果。
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分类信息:
一级分类:Economics 经济学
二级分类:General Economics 一般经济学
分类描述:General methodological, applied, and empirical contributions to economics.
对经济学的一般方法、应用和经验贡献。
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一级分类:Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类:Economics 经济学
分类描述:q-fin.EC is an alias for econ.GN. Economics, including micro and macro economics, international economics, theory of the firm, labor economics, and other economic topics outside finance
q-fin.ec是econ.gn的别名。经济学,包括微观和宏观经济学、国际经济学、企业理论、劳动经济学和其他金融以外的经济专题
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一级分类:Statistics 统计学
二级分类:Applications 应用程序
分类描述:Biology, Education, Epidemiology, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Medical, Physical Sciences, Quality Control, Social Sciences
生物学,教育学,流行病学,工程学,环境科学,医学,物理科学,质量控制,社会科学
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