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Satish Deodhar |
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Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Management
Vastrapur
Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380 015
India
Voice Mail: +91 79 6632 4817
Fax: +91 79 2630 6896
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Program Mentor:
Barry Krisshoff
Economic Research Service
USDA/ERS/MTED
1800 M Street, NW,
Room 5053
Washington, DC 20036-5831,
USA
+1-202-694-5250
Fax: +1-202-694-5820
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Research Proposal: Trade liberalization in agricultural commodities and processed food products is promoted through reduction of tariffs, quotas, and streamlining of other non-tariff barriers such as technical and sanitary and phytosanitary norms. Issues emerging out of such policy reforms depend on the nature of agricultural products. For agricultural commodities, as tariffs and quotas go away, focus gets shifted to sanitary and phytosanitary norms which have the potential to regulate imports. We propose to measure welfare gains embedded in the demand-supply framework and the cost-benefit analysis to give economic rationale for less-restrictive or more-restrictive phytosanitary norms on imports. For processed food products, although phytosanitary norms may not be of much consequence, degree of competition in the domestic markets is likely to get affected due to presence of imported products. This is true, especially where domestic markets may exhibit imperfectly competitive behaviour. We propose to measure the degree of competition in domestic processed food markets. This can be done by measuring competition parameters such as the market power or the conjectural variations parameter. Detailed case studies of a few industries may be attempted as well. |
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