Publication Date
1-2003
Series Number
03-WP 323
Abstract
Milk production is seasonal in many European countries. While quantity seasonality poses capacity management problems for dairy processors, a European Union policy goal is to reduce price seasonality. After developing a model of endogenous seasonality, we study the effects of three E.U. policies on production decisions. These are private storage subsidies, production removals, and production quotas. When cost functions are seasonal in a specified way, then arbitrage opportunities interact with storage subsidies to reduce both price and consumption seasonality. But production seasonality likely increases because storage subsidies promote temporal market integration. Conditions are identified under which product market interventions increase quantity seasonality.
Publication Information
This working paper was published as Hennessy, David A. and Jutta Roosen, "A Cost-Based Model of Seasonal Production with Application to Milk Policy," Journal of Agricultural Economics 54 (2003): 285–312, doi:10.1111/j.1477-9552.2003.tb00064.x.
Recommended Citation
Hennessy, David A. and Roosen, Jutta, "A Cost-Based Model of Seasonal Production, with Application to Milk Policy" (2003). CARD Working Papers. 339.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/card_workingpapers/339
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