Avaliação de desenho de mecanismo proposto para articulação de fundo de estabilização dos preços do açúcar do estado de Alagoas

Abstract

In this study, a mechanism design aimed for stabilizing sugar prices produced in Alagoas was evaluated. In the methodology, a descriptive study with a qualitative-quantitative approach was applied through interviews with sugar producers of Alagoas, as well as bibliographical and documentary research. It was schematized a fund formed with public and private capital, destined to stabilize the prices of sugar sold by producers, sellers and exporters of Alagoas, based on a mechanism of assignment and compensation type. It was concluded that is possible to mitigate the high price’s volatility and the persistence of price shocks for the sugar produced in Alagoas through the action of a stabilization fund. For future research, it was registered the study of a solution that allows the practice of sugar selling prices to the foreign market capable of offsetting its economic production costs.