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Export Taxes And Their Effects On Farmers' Profitability And Risk In Argentina, Ezequiel M. Villamil
Export Taxes And Their Effects On Farmers' Profitability And Risk In Argentina, Ezequiel M. Villamil
Department of Agricultural Economics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This main objective of this thesis is to analyze the effects of export taxes on the risk faced by farmers in different regions of Argentina in their cropping operations for wheat, sunflower, soybeans and corn. In the first chapter we introduce the variables and explain the agricultural environment in Argentina. A set of three profit function models with different export tax policies were specified in a Monte Carlo simulation template using data from 1985 to the present. A set of risk measures for the upper and lower partial moments along with the overall probability distribution statistics are used to asses …