A Note on the Effects of Non-Transferable Quotas on Supply Functions

Marketing systems using non-transferable or imperfectly transferable quotas induce shifts in supply as well as shifts along supply functions. There are social costs associated with these shifts which are additional to those normally recognised in the literature. To reduce the size of the shifts in supply and the social costs, quotas should he efficiently transferable.

MoreLess

Year of publication:	1981
Authors:	Alston, Julian M.
Published in:	Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - AARES. - Vol. 49.1981, 03
Publisher:	Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - AARES
Subject:	Marketing

More details

Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005522579