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Do Oil Price Increases Cause Higher Food Prices?
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation have been quite modest even after the change in U.S. biofuel policies in 2006. In contrast, increases in the real prices of corn, soybeans, wheat and rice received by U.S. farmers...
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Globalization, Credence Goods and International Civil Society
Krautheim, Sebastian; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The process of globalization is characterized by an impressive growth in global value chains, as well as the … potential NGO emergence allows firms to capture gains from globalization, which would otherwise be unattainable. We show that … regulation in South. …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504672
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662234
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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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Canada: No Place Like Home for Antidumping
Ludema, Rodney D; Mayda, Anna Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We analyze temporary trade barriers (TTB) in Canada in 1989-2009. We find that, despite the retreat in TTB stocks in …
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Political Risk And Irreversible Investment: Theory And An Application To Quebec
Altug, Sumru G.; Demers, Fanny S; Demers, Michel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Political risk is widely present in developing but also in developed countries, and stems from a variety of sources. The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we develop a theoretical model to investigate the impact of political risk on irreversible investment. Second, we apply our model to...
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The Exchange Rate - A Shock-Absorber or Source of Shocks? A Study of Four Open Economies
Artis, Michael J; Ehrmann, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The paper provides SVAR estimates for four open economies: the UK, Canada, Sweden and Denmark, making explicit a … another: monetary union appears easy to recommend for Sweden and Denmark, much less so for Canada and the UK. …
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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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