A regra ótima de armazenamento de arroz no Brasil

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the rice Storage in Brazil through a dynamic economic model of rational expectations in order to model the storage decision. The Storage quantities maximize the welfare in a competitive market with stochastic supply, in which all individuals are profit maximizers with rational expectations. The impacts depend mainly on the information available to the producer before storage is introduced, the elasticity of area supply, the specification of the demand curve, the storage costs and the rate of interest. These functions were used to estimate a dynamic model of rational expectations by a area supply function and expected price according to original storage, using a fourth degree polynomial in the stock. Then, a long-term simulation was estimated with the aim of show the impacts of high and low initial amount of storage in the market. The results showed that these impacts can be perceived for three or four seasons. © 2009 Economia Aplicada.