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As additional global production comes under the control of the cartel, more producer surplus can beextracted from consumers. Also, overall world income is reduced by a cartel. However, because the rest of the world is a net consumer, net economic welfare of other countries isreduced. Other competing exporters enjoy net benefits from higher world prices. Consumers in the US and the world lose more than producers gain from cartel action restrictingproduction and lowering US exports of grain. According to simulation results, cartel-like action restricting US supplies by 15% would most benefit American grain producers. Higher grain prices and lower costs more than compensate producers for less output, despite lower receipts attending an elastic demand. Consumer surplus falls nearly $2 billion when grain supply is reduced 20 %. US consumers of grain and grain products buy less at higher prices and are worse off, as is the country as a whole. World price increases were modest for wheat, but greater for corn and other coarse grains in part because of differences in market share among grains.

Grain supply restrictions were presumed to be mandatory, hence taxpayers incurred no additional outlays over those in 1989.

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Countries and groups of countries included in the model are Australia, Canada, the European Community (EC), European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the United States (US), Japan, and the rest of the world (ROW).The simulation results report the consequences of restricting only US grain production (wheat, corn, and other coarse grains) from 5 to 20% below the 1989 production level. Cross-effects among commodities and input-output relationships between field crop and livestock production are accounted for by substitution and complementary coefficients in behavioral equations.

The model simultaneously estimated outcomes in markets for nine commodities: beef, pork, poultry meat, wheat, corn, coarse grains (other than corn), oilseeds (soybeans, rapeseed, and sunflower seed), oilmeal, and sugar. Results reflect long-run changes from 1989conditions and are at 1989 generalprice levels. Economic Research Service trade data for 1989 were used to initialize the model. TheSWOPSIM program was used to write the model equations. The economic impacts of different producer cartel scenarios were estimated using a long-term, nine-region world trade simulation model incorporating the assumptions of neoclassical trade theory. Two basic approaches to extract economic rents are considered: (i) Mandatory supply controls to restrict production and raise grain price, and (2) export price discrimination using export taxes or subsidies.

The objective of this study is to measure economic payoffs from a grain cartel.