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[email protected] Bruno Henry De Frahan Yves Surry Paper prepared for presentation at the Xth EAAE Congress ‘Exploring Diversity in the European Agri-Food System’, Zaragoza (Spain), 28-31 August 2002 Copyright 2002 by Rabelais Yankam Njonou, Bruno Henry De Frahan and Yves Surry. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non- commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Xth EAAE congress, Zaragoza, 28-31 July 2002 Yankam, Henry de Frahan and Surry UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN RURAL ECONOMICS UNIT TESTING SEPARABILITY FOR COMMON WHEAT QUALITIES IN FRENCH IMPORT DEMAND MARKET USING AIDS AND ROTTERDAM DEMAND MODELS Rabelais Yankam Njonou(a), Bruno Henry De Frahan(b) and Yves Surry (c) A contributed paper to the Xth EAAE Congress Zaragoza, Spain August, 28-31 2002 (a) Doctoral student, Rural Economics Unit, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (
[email protected]) (b) Professor, Rural Economics Unit, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (c) Senior researcher, INRA, Rennes, France Copyright 2002 by Rabelais Yankam Njonou, Bruno Henry De Frahan and Yves Surry. All rights reserved. Readers may make copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright appears on all such copies. May, 2002 1 Xth EAAE congress, Zaragoza, 28-31 July 2002 Yankam, Henry de Frahan and Surry Key words: Separability, Import demand, Rotterdam and AIDS demand models, wheat qualities Abstract: This study has used a corrected likelihood ratio, with AIDS and Rotterdam demand models, to test separability in three separable (A, B, C) wheat import demand structures on the French common wheat market.