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Cost-Based Model of Seasonal Production, with Application to Milk Policy, A

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David A. Hennessy () (Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD))
Jutta Roosen

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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.

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Paper provided by Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University in its series Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications with number 03-wp323.

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Keywords: efficiency; market intervention; quota; stabilization; storage subsidies.;

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  1. David A. Hennessy, 2004. "Product Development, Cost Seasonality, Region Marginalization, and a More Demanding Consumer," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications 04-wp378, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Hennessy, David A. & Lapan, Harvey E., 2004. "Market Cycles for a Non-Storable Product under Adjustment Costs," Staff General Research Papers 12208, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  3. David Hennessy, 2007. "Region marginalization in agriculture, seasonality, dedicated capital, and product development with reference to North Europe dairy sector," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 41(2), pages 467-486, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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