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The National Security Argument for Agricultural Protection

Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

absence of imports the United Kingdom could feed itself. Oil and chemical inputs into agriculture are probably more vulnerable …

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Domestic and Trade Policy for Central and East European Agriculture

Karp, Larry; Stefanou, Spiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

increasingly on price subsidies and trade restrictions. We outline the situation of CEE agriculture and describe current policies …. Scarce government funds could be better used to support agriculture by providing partial loan guarantees, thus reducing … and trade policies should be used to support CEE agriculture, citing the example of OECD nations, and in particular the …

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Developing Country Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda

Anderson, Kym; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …

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Weather shocks and English wheat yields, 1690-1871

Brunt, Liam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We estimate a time series model of weather shocks on English wheat yields for the early nineteenth century and use it to predict weather effects on yield levels from 1697 to 1871. This reveals that yields in the 1690s were depressed by unusually poor weather; and those in the late 1850s were...

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A Second Look at the Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence from Senegal

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the...

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Industrial Countries' Agricultural Policy: How, What and Why?

Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

results not just from equilibrium in the "political market-place", but also from the process by which decisions on agriculture …

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Why Governments Tax or Subsidize Trade: Evidence From Agriculture

Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

in agriculture. We use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the … quantitative and price-based instruments used to regulate agriculture The data set admits consideration of effective taxes and …

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EU Trade Barriers in the Agri-food Sector: When Protection Breeds Dependence

Cadot, Olivier; Gallezot, Jacques; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper looks for firm-level evidence that high rates of protection breed concentration of firm activities into highly protected sectors, endogenously generating vested interests in the maintenance of protection. We combine data on the EU’s trade protection for food and agricultural...

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The Origins and Early Impact of the Minimum Wage in Agriculture

Gowers, Robin; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper examines the effects on wages and employment of the minimum wage in agriculture in the United Kingdom during …

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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...

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