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The Prospective Free Trade Agreement with Korea: Background, Analysis, and Perspectives for California Agriculture
Lee, Hyunok; Sumner, Daniel A. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2009
After several years of informal and formal negotiations, South Korea and the United States reached an agreement to move … implications. The study finds that the Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement has the potential to be a significant demand driver … restrictive sanitary and phytosanitary regulations, South Korea has become a major agricultural importer from California. South …
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Impact of Direct Income Payments on Productive Efficiency of Korean Rice Farms
Kang, Hye-Jung; Kim, Jeong-Ho - In: Journal of Rural Development/Nongchon-Gyeongje 31 (2008) 2
This paper examines the impact of direct income payments on productive efficiency of Korean rice farms, using farm-level cross sectional data in 2006. For representation of efficiency and its determinants, this paper uses a model that estimates the deviations of farms from a translog distance...
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Adjustments of capital account restrictions and exchange rate regimes in East Asia
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Kaji, Sahoko; Asonuma, Tamon - 2015
This paper discusses adjustments of capital account restrictions and exchange rate regimes in East Asia. Monetary authorities have two options for these adjustments: gradual adjustments or rapid adjustments. We analyze the costs and benefits for both adjustment options in each area, i.e.,...
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Spatial Price Analysis Incorporating Rate of Trade: Methods and Application to United States–China Soybean Trade
Han, Shengfei; Durham, Catherine A. - 2010
A regime-switching model for analysis of market integration has been developed that incorporates rate of trade information. An application of the methods to United States–China soybean trade demonstrates that the extended trade information allows better interpretation of market conditions....
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BIOFUELS AND LEAKAGES IN THE FUEL MARKET
Drabik, Dusan; de Gorter, Harry - 2010
Leakage in the fuel market differs, depending on whether ethanol production is determined by a tax credit or consumption mandate. Two components of market leakage are distinguished: domestic and international. Leakage with both a tax credit and a consumption mandate depends on market...
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IMPACTS OF EUROPEAN BIOFUEL POLICIES ON AGRICULTURAL MARKETS AND ENVIRONMENT UNDER CONSIDERATION OF 2ND GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Becker, Arno; Adenauer, Marcel; Blanco Fonseca, Maria - 2010
Even though recent discussions on food prices and indirect land use change point atpotential conflicts associated with the production of biofuels the appraisal of biofuels as an effective instrument to slow down climate change and reduce energy dependency still prevails. The EU Renewable Energy...
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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones
Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - 2010
Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...
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Relationships between Agricultural policies and Environmental Effects in Japan: An Environmental-Economic Integrated Model Approach
Sasaki, Hiroki - 2010
This study investigates the optimal agricultural land use allocation and nitrogen application to arepresentative Japanese farm. The site-specific nature of numerous agri-environmental issues necessitates analysis ata disaggregated level in order to capture the underlying heterogeneity of...
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MODELLING THE MARKET OUTLOOK AND POLICY ALTERNATIVES FOR THE WHEAT SECTOR IN SOUTH AFRICA
Meyer, Ferdinand H.; Kirsten, Johann F.; Poonyth, Daneswar - 2003
In this study, the structure of the South African wheat market is analysed using economic theory and econometric modelling techniques. The developed model is used to make baseline projections regarding the supply and use of wheat in South Africa and to analyse the impacts of various policy...
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MODELING WORLD PEANUT PRODUCT MARKETS: A TOOL FOR AGRICULTURAL TRADE POLICY ANALYSIS
Beghin, John C.; Matthey, Holger - 2003
This paper presents a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market international model developed to analyze policies affecting peanut products markets. The model covers four goods (food-quality peanuts, crush-quality peanuts, peanut oil, and groundnut cake) in 13 countries/regions (Argentina, Canada,...
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