An Evaluation of California's Mandated Commodity Promotion Programs |
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| Authors: | Julian M. Alston John M. Crespi Harry M. Kaiser Richard J. Sexton |
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| Affiliation: | Julian M. Alston is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and a member of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.; John M. Crespi is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University.; Harry M. Kaiser is a professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.; Richard J. Sexton is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis and a member of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. |
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This article provides an overview of mandated commodity programs in California, and summarizes and interprets existing evidence on their economic impacts. The analysis draws upon the recent book edited by the authors: The Economics of Commodity Promotion Programs: Lessons from California . New York: Peter Lang Publishing, April 2005. The book documents the institutional arrangements, summarizes the history of recent litigation, and presents the results of a number of benefit–cost studies of mandated commodity programs in California. The overwhelming conclusion from the studies reported in the article is that the programs have been very profitable for California's agricultural producers. |
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