Agriculture is one of strategic sectors that remains heavily subsidized in many countries. Russia has set course on self-sufficiency and has allocated substantial budgetary resources for agriculture support. However, the effectiveness and efficiency of this support is a matter of debate. Similarly, distribution of these resources across the federation appears to be uneven in terms of both the amount and the instruments chosen. Federal jurisdictions possess substantial autonomy allowing them to set their own goals and priorities. Traditional economic theories provide limited explanatory power to differences in policy priorities across regional units of one federal country or economic union of states. Political economy approaches have been successful explaining policy outcomes in the contexts of other industries. Agricultural sector has profited from these developments only to a limited extent.
The aspiration of this workshop is to bridge the gap between agricultural economics and political economy in an effort to explain how agricultural policies emerge and what their potential effects might be. The aim is to bring leading scholars with various backgrounds in order to intensively discuss possible explanations of the differences in agricultural policies from economics and political economy prisms. The workshop shall mainly provide a platform for researchers to share their work on how institutional and intergovernmental setup, political processes and fiscal factors may affect policy outcomes in agriculture and other industries. In addition, the participants will have a chance to discuss the effects of agricultural policies on the sector and rural areas. The format of this event will allow for more in-depth discussions going beyond typical international conference settings.
Financial support for the Workshop is provided by the Leibniz Association via the program “Leibniz Competition”.
Program
08:30 – 09:00 Participants registration
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome word
Prof. Aleksander Petrikov, Director, VIAPI
Prof. Thomas Herzfeld, Director, Department of Agricultural Policies, IAMO
09:10 – 09:50 Emergence and incidence of agricultural policies
Prof. Thomas Herzfeld, Director, Department of Agricultural Policies, IAMO
09:50 – 10:30 Current directions of improving state support of Russian agriculture
Prof. Aleksander Petrikov, Director, VIAPI
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:40 Political economy of Russian agricultural subsidies: First econometric results
Dr Vasyl Kvartiuk, Research Associate, Department of Agricultural Policies, IAMO
11:40 - 12:20 Direct and in-direct effects of state support of agriculture in Russian regions
Prof. Nikolai Svetlov, Leading Researcher, RANEPA
12:20 - 13:00 Political economy of EU agriculture support
Jana Demoustier, Research Associate, IAMO
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:40 Limiting the size of subsidies for one agricultural producer: Necessity, mechanisms, consequences
Vasiliy Uzun, Chief Research Associate, RANEPA
14:40 – 15:20 Agricultural policy effects on the Russian dairy sector: Evidence from survey data
Prof. Martin Petrick, Deputy Director, Department of Agricultural Policies, IAMO
15:20 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:00 Panel discussion with questions from the audience
Dr Natalia Shagaida, Director of the Center of Agricultural and Food Policy, RANEPA
Prof. Aleksander Petrikov, Director, VIAPI
Prof. Martin Petrick, Deputy Director, Department of Agricultural Policies, IAMO
Moderator: Prof. Thomas Herzfeld, Director, Department of Agricultural Policies, IAMO
17:00 Closing of the Workshop
Venue: Room П5, Faculty of Economic, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Please, allocate one third of the time slot for Q&A.
