Measuring the effectiveness of non-price export promotion using a supply-side approach

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Measuring the effectiveness of non-price export promotion using a supply-side approach

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C. Richard Shumway (Department of Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, TX, 99164-6210 USA)
H. Alan Love () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124, USA)
Juan J. Porras (U.S. Customs, Department of the Treasury, Laredo, TX, 78045 USA)

Abstract

In this paper we assess the effectiveness of the Market Promotion Program (MPP) in increasing U.S. exports and benefitting U.S. agricultural producers and food processors. Export shipments are linked to producer welfare using Kohli's (1978) profit maximization (GNP function) approach to modeling international trade. Using estimated profit functions in conjunction with a synthetic export demand function for processed agricultural products, we compute changes in farm and food processing sector profits that result from alternative own-price and advertising elasticities of export demand with and without the MPP subsidy. This approach allows us to investigate aggregate welfare effects of nonprice promotion without requiring the difficult task of estimating the export demand effects of market promotion activities for numerous commodities and importing countries.

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Empirical Economics.

Volume (Year): 26 (2001)
Issue (Month): 2 ()
Pages: 367-389
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