Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change: Evidence from the Canadian Prairies

Mark Brown, Shon M. Ferguson, Crina Viju

NBER Working Paper No. 23857
Issued in September 2017

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We thank Paul Rhode, Martin Beaulieu, Danny Leung and seminar participants at the NBER Understanding Productivity Growth in Agriculture Workshop, Statistics Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for comments and suggestions. We thank the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research (CDER) at Statistics Canada for providing access to the data and, in particular, Afshan Dar-Brodeur for her assistance throughout the process. We thank Jason Skotheim and Gary Warkentine for assistance with the freight rate data. Financial assistance from the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation and the Marianne and the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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