TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kozicka, Marta
A1  - Kalkuhl, Matthias
A1  - Brockhaus, Jan
T1  - Food Grain Policies in India and their Implications for Stocks and Fiscal Costs
BT  - a Dynamic Partial Equilibrium Analysis
JF  - Journal of Agricultural Economics
N2  - We analyse current and possible future reforms of the Indian food policies for the most important staple grains, wheat and rice, within a two-commodity dynamic partial equilibrium model with stochastic shocks. The model is empirically grounded and reproduces past values well. It uses a new reduced-form approach to capture private storage dynamics. We evaluate the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) under several policy measures with the current regime as well as two scenarios with a regime change - implementation of cash transfers and deficiency payments. Implications for market fundamentals and fiscal costs are simulated in the medium term - until 2020/21. The NFSA puts a high pressure on fiscal costs and public stocks. Relying on imports with low support prices results in low fiscal costs and stable, but higher domestic and international prices, and a high risk of zero stocks. A policy strategy to manipulate procurement prices in order to maintain public stocks close to the norms leads to slightly higher fiscal costs with lower, but more volatile prices. The highest domestic price volatility occurs under a strategy which uses export bans in order to maintain sufficient public stocks. A cash-based regime can bring considerable savings and curb fiscal costs, particularly if targeted to the poor, and would leave sufficient stocks due to higher private stocks.
KW  - Fiscal costs
KW  - food grain policies
KW  - grain storage
KW  - India
KW  - NFSA
KW  - reforms
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12176
SN  - 0021-857X
SN  - 1477-9552
VL  - 68
IS  - 1
SP  - 98
EP  - 122
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bertels, Jana
A1  - Schulze-Gabrechten, Lena
T1  - Mapping the black box of intraministerial organization
BT  - An analytical approach to explore structural diversity below the portfolio level
JF  - Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions
N2  - This article explores the structural diversity of intraministerial organization over time. Based on organization theory, it proposes a generic typology for intraministerial units applicable to any hierarchically structured government organization. We empirically investigate the critical case of the German federal bureaucracy. By classifying its subunits, we analyze the longitudinal development of structural differentiation and its correspondence to denominational variety. The data stem from a novel international dataset, covering all ministries between 1980 and 2015. We find that intraministerial structure differentiates over time, across and within ministries. A stable core of traditional Weberian structure is complemented by structurally innovative intraministerial units. We conclude that the German federal bureaucracy is more diverse than suggested in previous literature. Our findings indicate that less Weberian bureaucracies are at least as structurally diverse and that more reform-driven bureaucracies will have experienced at least as many changes in structural diversity.
KW  - continuity
KW  - government
KW  - impact
KW  - public management
KW  - reforms
KW  - state
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12486
SN  - 0952-1895
SN  - 1468-0491
VL  - 34
IS  - 1
SP  - 171
EP  - 189
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -