Imperfect competition, border protection and consumer boycott: The future of the dairy industry in Israel

Dorothee Flaig; Ofir Rubin; Khalid Siddig

doi:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2013.01.001

Imperfect competition, border protection and consumer boycott: The future of the dairy industry in Israel

Dorothee Flaig, Ofir Rubin, Khalid Siddig

Department of Public Policy and Management

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Abstract

Recent increases in prices of dairy products in Israel led to consumer unrest and boycotts against dairy producers during the summer of 2011. The Israeli dairy industry is highly distorted with production quotas and administered prices for raw milk, tariff rate quotas and an oligopoly in dairy processing. Since the issue of self-sufficiency and food security is at the top of Israel's national priorities, the future of the dairy industry is generating heated debate. Thus, we use a general equilibrium model to estimate the effects associated with particular alternative policies actually discussed to liberalize the Israeli dairy industry.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	838-851
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Policy Modeling
Volume	35
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2013.01.001
State	Published - 1 Sep 2013

Keywords

Agricultural policy
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
Dairy
Imperfect competition
Israel
Tariff rate quotas
Trade policy

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Economics and Econometrics

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Imperfect competition, border protection and consumer boycott: The future of the dairy industry in Israel

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