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Trade Barrier Volatility and Agricultural Price Stabilization
Anderson, Kym; Nelgen, Signe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
extreme upward price spikes, trade policy responses by food importers are as substantial as those of exporting countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692306
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Agricultural trade distortions during the global financial crisis
Anderson, Kym; Nelgen, Signe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The recent upward spike in the international price of food led some countries to raise export barriers. As in previous … price spike periods, that response by some food-exporting countries was accompanied by a lowering of import restrictions by … numerous food-importing countries. Both actions exacerbate the international price spike. This paper provides new evidence n …
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Novel Indicators of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Agricultural Distortions in OECD Countries
Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Agricultural markets in OECD countries have long been highly distorted by government policies. Traditional weighted average aggregates of the price distortions involved, such as producer and consumer support estimates (PSEs and CSEs), can be poor indicators of the trade restrictiveness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466338
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Distorted Agricultural Incentives and Economic Development: Asia’s Experience
Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Earnings from farming in many low-income countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic welfare. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123883
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Global Distortions to Agricultural Markets: New Indicators of Trade and Welfare Impacts, 1955 to 2007
Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L.; Lloyd, Peter J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions can be poor guides to the policies’ economic effects. Recent theoretical literature provides indicators of trade- and welfare-reducing effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124247
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia Since World War II
Anderson, Kym; Lloyd, Peter J; Maclaren, Donald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Australia’s lacklustre economic growth performance in the first four decades following World War II was in part due to an anti-trade, anti-primary sector bias in government assistance policies. This paper provides new annual estimates of the extent of those biases since 1946 and their gradual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136689