IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/ajagec/v79y1997i2p383-393.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Seasonal and Spatial Dimensions of Sorghum Market Liberalization in Mexico

Author

Listed:
  • E. Leigh Bivings

Abstract

Mexico's attempt to deregulate its sorghum market in 1990 was unsuccessful because policy analysts failed to consider the seasonal and spatial dimensions of trade. In this paper I present a detailed, seasonal, and spatially dissaggregated nonlinear programming model of the Mexican sorghum market calibrated with survey data of storage and transport costs in Mexico, and compare the results obtained with models that ignore these characteristics. The comparison demonstrates that the failure to incorporate these costs in trade models may lead to misleading conclusions and inappropriate policies. Copyright 1997, Oxford University Press.

Suggested Citation

  • E. Leigh Bivings, 1997. "The Seasonal and Spatial Dimensions of Sorghum Market Liberalization in Mexico," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 79(2), pages 383-393.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:79:y:1997:i:2:p:383-393
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1244137
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Arndt, Channing & Schiller, Rico & Tarp, Finn, 2001. "Grain transport and rural credit in Mozambique: solving the space-time problem," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 25(1), pages 59-70, June.
    2. Ruijs, Arjan & Schweigman, Caspar & Lutz, Clemens, 2004. "The impact of transport- and transaction-cost reductions on food markets in developing countries: evidence for tempered expectations for Burkina Faso," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 31(2-3), pages 219-228, December.
    3. Walkenhorst, P., 2000. "Handelsliberalisierung, abgeleitete Produktnachfrage und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Agrarwirtschaft," Proceedings “Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V.”, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA), vol. 36.
    4. Ruijs, Arjan & Schweigman, Caspar & Lutz, Clemens, 2003. "The Impact Of Transport- And Transaction-Cost Reductions On Food Markets In Developing Countries: Evidence For Tempered Expectations For Burkina Faso," 2003 Annual Meeting, August 16-22, 2003, Durban, South Africa 25866, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    5. Arndt, Channing & Schiller, Rico, 1998. "Storage of Maize in Mozambique Under Dualistic Credit Markets: A spatial and Temporal Analysis," MPRA Paper 63236, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Suzuki, Aya & Sexton, Richard J., 2005. "Transportation Cost and Market Power of Middlemen: A Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Commodity Markets in Developing Countries," 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI 19329, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    7. Arndt, Channing & Schiller, Rico & Philipsen, Annelotte, 1998. "Maize Markets And Rural Storage In Mozambique: A Spatial And Temporal Analysis," 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT 20991, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:79:y:1997:i:2:p:383-393. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.