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Agricultural Crises and Government Responses Between the World Wars in the Atlantic Trading Network
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The paper summarizes research on the heterogeneous experiences of actors in agriculture in Europe and the Americas between the First and Second World Wars. Following a period of increasing globalization of agricultural markets, the First World War sharply limited farming in the main combatant...
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China’s Import Demand for Agricultural Products : The Impact of the Phase One Trade Agreement
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2020
In December 2019, the United States and China reached a Phase One trade agreement, under which China committed to …, as compared to 2017. We show that the most efficient way for China to increase its imports from the United States is to … mimic the effect of an import subsidy. If China's agricultural imports did not otherwise grow from their 2017 values, then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481578
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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity : Lessons from China
Huang, Jikun - 2008
Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the … WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464695
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Realizing the gains from trade : export crops, marketing costs, and poverty
Balat, Jorge F. - 2007
"This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521474
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Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes
Bagwell, Kyle - 2000
The primary predictions of strategic-trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly-competitive markets. Indeed, these predictions emerge in a natural three-country extension of the traditional theory of trade policy in competitive markets, once the theory is augmented to allow for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470921
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Has Global Agricultural Trade Been Resilient Under Covid-19? Findings from an Econometric Assessment of 2020
Arita, Shawn; Grant, Jason; Sydow, Sharon S.; Beckman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Global agricultural trade, which increased at the end of 2020, has been described as "resilient" to the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic; however, the size and channels of its quantitative impacts are not clear. Using a reduced-form, gravity-based econometric model for monthly trade,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794579
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The Impacts of Export Taxes on Agricultural Trade
Beckman, Jayson - 2018
Export taxes, despite being applied by several countries, have not received the same scrutiny in multilateral trade negotiations as other trade barriers. This work seeks to provide more detail into the linkages between export taxes, trade, food prices, and poverty in the agriculture sector. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480549
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Global Trade and Margins of Productivity in Agriculture
Farrokhi, Farid - 2020
We study the effects of globalization on agricultural productivity across countries. We develop a multi-country general equilibrium model that incorporates choices of crops and technologies in agricultural production at the micro-level of fields covering the surface of the earth. We estimate our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481545
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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
Carter, Colin A. - 2020
This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and induced a reorientation of international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481730
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Machine Learning in Gravity Models : An Application to Agricultural Trade
Gopinath, Munisamy - 2020
Predicting agricultural trade patterns is critical to decision making in the public and private domains, especially in the current context of trade disputes among major economies. Focusing on seven major agricultural commodities with a long history of trade, this study employed data-driven and...
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