The end of the federal tobacco program: Economic impacts of the deregulation of U.S. tobacco production

Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 635-655

  Brown, Blake A ^a   Rucker, Randal R ^b   Thurman, Walter N ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 35448978048     PISSN: 10587195     EISSN: 14679353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9353.2007.00378.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Beghin, J., and R. Chang. "Differentiated Products and Supply Controls in the Analysis of Agricultural Policy Reform: The Case of Tobacco." Agr. Econ. 7(October 1992):301-15.
2. Brown, A.B. "Cigarette Taxes and Smoking Restrictions: Impacts and Policy Implications." Amer. J. Agr. Econ. 77(November 1995):946-51.
3. Brown, A.B., and L.L. Martin. "Price versus Quota Reductions: U.S. Flue-Cured Tobacco Policy." J. Agr. Appl. Econ. 28(December 1996):445-52.
4. Brown, A.B., W.M. Snell, and K.H. Tiller. "The Changing Political Environment for Tobacco - Implications for Southern Tobacco Farmers, Rural Economies, Taxpayers and Consumers." J. Agr. Appl. Econ. 31(August 1999):291-308.
5. Fabre, R., and R.R. Rucker. "Lease Rates and Sale Prices for Peanut Poundage Quota: 1978-1987," Economic Information Report No. 78, Department of Economics and Business, North Carolina State University, February 1989.
6. Fulginiti, L., and R. Perrin. "The Theory and Measurement of Producer Response under Quotas." Rev. Econ. Stat. 75(February 1993):97-106.
7. Gardner, B.L. "Issues in a Buyout for Tobacco Growers." Hearing to Examine the Implications of the Proposed Tobacco Settlement. U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. September 18, 1997.
8. Jalonick, M.C., and K. Schuler. "FDA Oversight of Tobacco Linked to Farmer Buyout." CQ Today 39(128):1,4. July 31, 2003.
9. Johnson, P.R., and D.T. Norton. "Social Cost of the Tobacco Program Redux." Am. J. Agr. Econ. 65(February 1983):117-19.
10. Leamer, E.E. Specification Searches: Ad Hoc Inference with Nonexperimental Data. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.
11. Mittal, A.K. "Tobacco Settlement: States' Allocation of Phase II Funds." United States General Accounting Office. Memo to Congressional requesters. December 3, 2002.
12. Muth, M.K., R.R. Rucker, W.N. Thurman, and C.T. Chuang. "The Fable of the Bees Revisited: Causes and Consequences of the U.S. Honey Program." J. Law Econ. 46(October 2003):479-516.
13. Rezitis, A.N., A.B. Brown, and W.E. Foster. "Adjustment Costs and Dynamic Factor Demands for U.S. Cigarette Manufacturing." Agr. Econ. 18(May 1998):217-31.
14. Rucker, R.R. "Endogenous Policy Dynamics, the Visibility of Rents, and Changes in the Transferability of Production Rights: The Case of Flue-Cured Tobacco." Unpublished manuscript, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, June 1995.
15. Rucker, R.R., W.N. Thurman, and D.A. Sumner. "Restricting the Market for Quota: An Analysis of Tobacco Production Rights with Corroboration from Congressional Testimony." J. Pol. Econ. 103(February 1995):142-75.
16. Sumner, D.A., and J.M. Alston. "Consequences of Elimination of the Tobacco Program." North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, Bulletin 469, North Carolina State University, March 1984.
17. Sumner, D.A., and N.L.W. Wilson. "Risk and Returns to Policy-Created Assets in a Portfolio Context: California Dairy Quota." Unpublished manuscript, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, March 2002.
18. Sumner D.A., and M.K. Wohlgenant. "Effects of an Increase in the Federal Excise Tax on Cigarettes." Amer. J. Agr. Econ. 67(May 1985):235-42.
19. Thurman, W.N., T.J. Fox, and T.H. Bingham. "Imposing Smoothness Priors in Applied Welfare Economics: An Application of the Information Contract Curve to Environmental Regulatory Analysis." Rev. Econ. Stat. 83(August 2001):511-22.
20. Tiller, K.H. "Tobacco Settlement, Phase II and Disaster Payments: An Overview and Status Report." APAC Publication, University of Tennessee. December 2000.
21. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Tobacco Situation and Outlook. Various issues.
22. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Unpublished Data, 1993.
23. U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Agricultural Statistics Service. 2002 Census of Agriculture. Available at http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/census02/volume1/us/st99_1_050_050.pdf, accessed 28 July 2002.