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the zero trade flows or to replace the zero with a small positive number. Both of these actions bias the resulting … model to estimate bilateral trade flows for 46 agrifood products, for the period 1990 to 2000, for 52 countries. In our … significance and economic interpretation of the marginal effects. Hence, treating zero trade flows properly is important from both …
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understanding of these important factors could be useful when negotiating trade agreements, especially in agriculture, which is a … Valenzuela, 2008) in an effort to explain trade bias in agriculture. We find little empirical evidence that governments pursue … agricultural trade policies to reduce inequality between net-importing and net-exporting sectors in agriculture. Lagged trade …
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being devised. Likewise, support for agriculture has increased in key emerging economies. In the US, in particular, the next … into effect. This paper reviews these developments and their implications for trade and future trade negotiations. The WTO …
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Despite the presence of food miles labels and carbon labels on the market for many years, relatively little data is available on how consumers respond to these labels. It is one thing to show people saying in surveys they will use carbon labels, and quite another to have evidence of people...
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Using a generalized gravity equation, this study tests for the Linder effect in differentiated agrifood product trade …, i.e. as the demand structures of two countries become more similar, their trade intensity increases. Two proxies of … to capture the Linder effect. In addition, two measures of bilateral trade, the Grubel and Lloyed index, and the value of …
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Current Doha Development Agenda (DDA) World Trade Organisation negotiations include proposals that would affect the … trade barriers that protect Canada’s chicken producers from foreign competition. This research analyses the effects of the …
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In a meta-analysis of trade policy models, Hess and von Cramon-Taubadel (2008) use over 5800 simulated welfare effects … conclude that meta-analysis can provide insights into the behaviour of trade policy models beyond what is possible with …
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from this literature is that the GATT/WTO has worked well if we ignore trade in agriculture – one of the institution …Recent empirical studies have estimated the trade flow effect of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and … its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). One important, although largely untested, conclusion …
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