Decoupled Farm Payments and the Role of Base Updating under Uncertainty

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1 Decoupled Farm Payments and the Role of Base Updating under Uncertainty Arathi Bhaskar and John Beghin Iowa State University November 16, 2007 Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

2 Introduction Motivation Motivation URAA (1994) of the WTO categorized agricultural support payments into three boxes Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

3 Introduction Motivation Motivation URAA (1994) of the WTO categorized agricultural support payments into three boxes Amber Box: Subsidies which cause most distortion Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

4 Introduction Motivation Motivation URAA (1994) of the WTO categorized agricultural support payments into three boxes Amber Box: Subsidies which cause most distortion Blue Box: Subsidies that cause some distortion but are production limiting Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

5 Introduction Motivation Motivation URAA (1994) of the WTO categorized agricultural support payments into three boxes Amber Box: Subsidies which cause most distortion Blue Box: Subsidies that cause some distortion but are production limiting Green Box: Subsidies that cause minimal or no distortion Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

6 Introduction Motivation Motivation URAA (1994) of the WTO categorized agricultural support payments into three boxes Amber Box: Subsidies which cause most distortion Blue Box: Subsidies that cause some distortion but are production limiting Green Box: Subsidies that cause minimal or no distortion Definition of Decoupled Payments (URAA) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

7 Introduction Motivation Motivation URAA (1994) of the WTO categorized agricultural support payments into three boxes Amber Box: Subsidies which cause most distortion Blue Box: Subsidies that cause some distortion but are production limiting Green Box: Subsidies that cause minimal or no distortion Definition of Decoupled Payments (URAA) Financed by taxpayers Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

8 Introduction Motivation Motivation URAA (1994) of the WTO categorized agricultural support payments into three boxes Amber Box: Subsidies which cause most distortion Blue Box: Subsidies that cause some distortion but are production limiting Green Box: Subsidies that cause minimal or no distortion Definition of Decoupled Payments (URAA) Financed by taxpayers Do not depend on current production, factor use, or prices Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

9 Introduction Motivation Motivation URAA (1994) of the WTO categorized agricultural support payments into three boxes Amber Box: Subsidies which cause most distortion Blue Box: Subsidies that cause some distortion but are production limiting Green Box: Subsidies that cause minimal or no distortion Definition of Decoupled Payments (URAA) Financed by taxpayers Do not depend on current production, factor use, or prices Eligibility criteria are defined by a fixed, historical base period Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

10 Introduction Motivation Motivation URAA (1994) of the WTO categorized agricultural support payments into three boxes Amber Box: Subsidies which cause most distortion Blue Box: Subsidies that cause some distortion but are production limiting Green Box: Subsidies that cause minimal or no distortion Definition of Decoupled Payments (URAA) Financed by taxpayers Do not depend on current production, factor use, or prices Eligibility criteria are defined by a fixed, historical base period Production not required to receive payments Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

11 Introduction Motivation Coupling mechanisms of Decoupled Payments Uncertainty - Hennessy (1998) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

12 Introduction Motivation Coupling mechanisms of Decoupled Payments Uncertainty - Hennessy (1998) Imperfect credit market - Roe et al. (2003) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

13 Introduction Motivation Coupling mechanisms of Decoupled Payments Uncertainty - Hennessy (1998) Imperfect credit market - Roe et al. (2003) Labor market - El-Osta et al. (2004), Ahearn et al. (2006) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

14 Introduction Motivation Coupling mechanisms of Decoupled Payments Uncertainty - Hennessy (1998) Imperfect credit market - Roe et al. (2003) Labor market - El-Osta et al. (2004), Ahearn et al. (2006) Land market - Goodwin et al. (2003) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

15 Introduction Motivation Coupling mechanisms of Decoupled Payments Uncertainty - Hennessy (1998) Imperfect credit market - Roe et al. (2003) Labor market - El-Osta et al. (2004), Ahearn et al. (2006) Land market - Goodwin et al. (2003) Expectations - Sumner (2003), McIntosh et al. (2006) and Coble et al. (2007) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

16 Introduction Our Approach Our Approach Follow Duffy and Taylor (1994) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

17 Introduction Our Approach Our Approach Follow Duffy and Taylor (1994) Combine Dynamic Programming with Expected Present Value calculations and maximize the stream of profits over the two policy regimes Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

18 Introduction Our Approach Our Approach Follow Duffy and Taylor (1994) Combine Dynamic Programming with Expected Present Value calculations and maximize the stream of profits over the two policy regimes This allows us to quantify the effect of expected base update in terms of acreage Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

19 Introduction Our Approach Our Approach Follow Duffy and Taylor (1994) Combine Dynamic Programming with Expected Present Value calculations and maximize the stream of profits over the two policy regimes This allows us to quantify the effect of expected base update in terms of acreage Representative farmer producing single crop faces price, yield and policy uncertainty Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

20 Introduction Our Approach Our Approach Follow Duffy and Taylor (1994) Combine Dynamic Programming with Expected Present Value calculations and maximize the stream of profits over the two policy regimes This allows us to quantify the effect of expected base update in terms of acreage Representative farmer producing single crop faces price, yield and policy uncertainty Policy uncertainty is captured by δ [0, 1] Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

21 Introduction Our Approach Our Approach Follow Duffy and Taylor (1994) Combine Dynamic Programming with Expected Present Value calculations and maximize the stream of profits over the two policy regimes This allows us to quantify the effect of expected base update in terms of acreage Representative farmer producing single crop faces price, yield and policy uncertainty Policy uncertainty is captured by δ [0, 1] National level analysis Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

22 Introduction Our Approach Three Government Payments Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

23 Introduction Our Approach Three Government Payments Direct payments (DP) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

24 Introduction Our Approach Three Government Payments Direct payments (DP) Counter-cyclical payments (CCP) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

25 Introduction Our Approach Three Government Payments Direct payments (DP) Counter-cyclical payments (CCP) Loan deficiency payments (LDP) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

26 Introduction Our Approach Three Government Payments Direct payments (DP) Counter-cyclical payments (CCP) Loan deficiency payments (LDP) New base acreage for DP and CCP equals the average of the acreage planted during current policy regime Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

27 Introduction Our Approach Three Government Payments Direct payments (DP) Counter-cyclical payments (CCP) Loan deficiency payments (LDP) New base acreage for DP and CCP equals the average of the acreage planted during current policy regime Results Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

28 Introduction Our Approach Three Government Payments Direct payments (DP) Counter-cyclical payments (CCP) Loan deficiency payments (LDP) New base acreage for DP and CCP equals the average of the acreage planted during current policy regime Results The solution is the average optimal planted acreage, Ā Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

29 Introduction Our Approach Three Government Payments Direct payments (DP) Counter-cyclical payments (CCP) Loan deficiency payments (LDP) New base acreage for DP and CCP equals the average of the acreage planted during current policy regime Results The solution is the average optimal planted acreage, Ā Ā is weakly increasing in δ Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

30 Introduction Our Approach Three Government Payments Direct payments (DP) Counter-cyclical payments (CCP) Loan deficiency payments (LDP) New base acreage for DP and CCP equals the average of the acreage planted during current policy regime Results The solution is the average optimal planted acreage, Ā Ā is weakly increasing in δ Maximum percent increase in Ā is 6% Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

31 Model Profit Per Period Profit Period of analysis covers 2 Farm Bills: Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

32 Model Profit Per Period Profit Period of analysis covers 2 Farm Bills: Risk neutral farmer producing a single crop, corn Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

33 Model Profit Per Period Profit Period of analysis covers 2 Farm Bills: Risk neutral farmer producing a single crop, corn Two sources of income Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

34 Model Profit Per Period Profit Period of analysis covers 2 Farm Bills: Risk neutral farmer producing a single crop, corn Two sources of income Market Income: P t Ỹ t A t Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

35 Model Profit Per Period Profit Period of analysis covers 2 Farm Bills: Risk neutral farmer producing a single crop, corn Two sources of income Market Income: P t Ỹ t A t Government payments: DP, CCP and LDP Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

36 Model Profit Per Period Profit Period of analysis covers 2 Farm Bills: Risk neutral farmer producing a single crop, corn Two sources of income Market Income: P t Ỹ t A t Government payments: DP, CCP and LDP Per period profit π t = P t Ỹ t A t + LDP + DP + CCP TC(A t ) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

37 Model Main Problem Maximize Expected Present Value of profits over max E A t [ 4 ] β t π t (A t, P t, Ỹt) + β 5 (δ VB + (1 δ) VNB) t=0 VB is the value function for the stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) problem associated with base updating Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

38 Model Main Problem Maximize Expected Present Value of profits over max E A t [ 4 ] β t π t (A t, P t, Ỹt) + β 5 (δ VB + (1 δ) VNB) t=0 VB is the value function for the stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) problem associated with base updating VNB is the value function for the SDP problem associated with no base updating Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

39 Model Main Problem Maximize Expected Present Value of profits over max E A t [ 4 ] β t π t (A t, P t, Ỹt) + β 5 (δ VB + (1 δ) VNB) t=0 VB is the value function for the stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) problem associated with base updating VNB is the value function for the SDP problem associated with no base updating VB and VNB represent the possible values of future income from the market and government payments Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

40 Model Main Problem Maximize Expected Present Value of profits over max E A t [ 4 ] β t π t (A t, P t, Ỹt) + β 5 (δ VB + (1 δ) VNB) t=0 VB is the value function for the stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) problem associated with base updating VNB is the value function for the SDP problem associated with no base updating VB and VNB represent the possible values of future income from the market and government payments δ captures farmer s beliefs about possibility of base update Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

41 Model Main Problem Maximize Expected Present Value of profits over max E A t [ 4 ] β t π t (A t, P t, Ỹt) + β 5 (δ VB + (1 δ) VNB) t=0 VB is the value function for the stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) problem associated with base updating VNB is the value function for the SDP problem associated with no base updating VB and VNB represent the possible values of future income from the market and government payments δ captures farmer s beliefs about possibility of base update Supply effect of the expectation of base update: Ā δ>0 Ā δ=0 Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

42 Model SDP with base update Value function associated with base update VB t (S t ) = max A t [ k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l π t + β k=1 l=1 ] M i,j,k,l VB t+1 (S t+1 ), t = 1, 2,...5. S t = ( P t, Ỹt, BA ) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

43 Model SDP with base update Value function associated with base update VB t (S t ) = max A t [ k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l π t + β k=1 l=1 ] M i,j,k,l VB t+1 (S t+1 ), t = 1, 2,...5. S t = ( P t, Ỹt, BA ) M is the probability transition matrix Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

44 Model SDP with base update Value function associated with base update VB t (S t ) = max A t [ k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l π t + β k=1 l=1 ] M i,j,k,l VB t+1 (S t+1 ), t = 1, 2,...5. S t = ( P t, Ỹt, BA ) M is the probability transition matrix Acreage discretized into eight values: 900 acres to 1250 acres in increments of 50 Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

45 Model SDP with base update Value function associated with base update VB t (S t ) = max A t [ k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l π t + β k=1 l=1 ] M i,j,k,l VB t+1 (S t+1 ), t = 1, 2,...5. S t = ( P t, Ỹt, BA ) M is the probability transition matrix Acreage discretized into eight values: 900 acres to 1250 acres in increments of 50 New base is average of acreage planted during Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

46 Model SDP with base update Value function associated with base update VB t (S t ) = max A t [ k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l π t + β k=1 l=1 ] M i,j,k,l VB t+1 (S t+1 ), t = 1, 2,...5. S t = ( P t, Ỹt, BA ) M is the probability transition matrix Acreage discretized into eight values: 900 acres to 1250 acres in increments of 50 New base is average of acreage planted during Possible new base states equal Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

47 Model SDP with base update Value function associated with base update VB t (S t ) = max A t [ k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l π t + β k=1 l=1 ] M i,j,k,l VB t+1 (S t+1 ), t = 1, 2,...5. S t = ( P t, Ỹt, BA ) M is the probability transition matrix Acreage discretized into eight values: 900 acres to 1250 acres in increments of 50 New base is average of acreage planted during Possible new base states equal Total number of states = Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

48 Model SDP with no Base Update Value function associated with no base update VNB t (S t ) = max A t [ k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l π t + β k=1 l=1 ] M i,j,k,l VNB t+1 (S t+1 ), t = 1, 2,...5 S t = ( P t, Ỹ t ) Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

49 Model SDP with no Base Update Value function associated with no base update VNB t (S t ) = max A t [ k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l π t + β k=1 l=1 ] M i,j,k,l VNB t+1 (S t+1 ), t = 1, 2,...5 S t = ( P t, Ỹ t ) Total number of states equal 64 Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

50 Model SDP with no Base Update Value function associated with no base update VNB t (S t ) = max A t [ k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l π t + β k=1 l=1 ] M i,j,k,l VNB t+1 (S t+1 ), t = 1, 2,...5 S t = ( P t, Ỹ t ) Total number of states equal 64 Base acreage for DP and CCP remain the same as the period Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

51 Model Main Problem Main Problem max A t 4 t=0 k=1 l=1 β t M i,j,k,l π t + β 5 k=1 l=1 M i,j,k,l (δ VB + (1 δ) VNB) Farmer maximizes the Expected Present Value of the stream of income over , over all base states Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

52 Results Results Results are determined by the price states Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

53 Results Results Results are determined by the price states Solution to the problem is the Average Optimal Planted Acreage for , (Ā), conditional on farmer s beliefs, δ Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

54 Results Results Results are determined by the price states Solution to the problem is the Average Optimal Planted Acreage for , (Ā), conditional on farmer s beliefs, δ Ā is weakly increasing in δ Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

55 Results Average Optimal Planted Acreage over δ Price State Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

56 Results Ā over Average Optimal Planted Acreage del=0 del=0.25 del=0.5 del=0.75 del= Price States Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

57 Percent change in Results Ā relative to δ = 0 δ Price State Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

58 Concluding Remarks Concluding Remarks Decoupled payments do influence producer decisions but impacts are small in magnitude Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

59 Concluding Remarks Concluding Remarks Decoupled payments do influence producer decisions but impacts are small in magnitude Maximum percent increase in Ā is 6% Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

60 Concluding Remarks Concluding Remarks Decoupled payments do influence producer decisions but impacts are small in magnitude Maximum percent increase in Ā is 6% Policy implication Bhaskar & Beghin (ISU) Decoupled Payments 11/16/ / 15

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