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Measuring the Integration of Staple Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Cross Border Trade in the East African Community
Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy - CESifo - 2011
This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914284
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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and export policy. Specifically, unilateral actions by exporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542015
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The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) and Tariffs: Price Behaviour with Imperfectly Competitive Market Intermediaries
MacLaren, Donald - CESifo - 2014
to use contingent tariffs to control import surges of food commodities and/or downward spikes in their border prices. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735189
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Global Gains from Trade Liberalization
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Qi, Han Steffan - CESifo - 2012
What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540252
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International Trade in Natural Resources: Practice and Policy
Ruta, Michele; Venables, Anthony J. - CESifo - 2012
Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540254
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Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri A.; … - CESifo - 2007
world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, we extend the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765925
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Competition in the Service Sector and the Performances of Manufacturing Firms: Does Liberalization Matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - CESifo - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms’ efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534010
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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2009
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979401
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The Customs Union Issue: Why do we Observe so few of them?
Facchini, Giovanni; Silva, Peri A.; Willmann, Gerald - CESifo - 2008
The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can be considered to be fully fledged customs unions. This paper develops a political economy model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406001
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The Deepening China Brazil Economic Relationship
Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - CESifo - 2010
We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply increased bilateral trade and foreign direct investment flows and also from enhanced cohesion of negotiating positions in international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833874