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Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries
Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, hunger and malnutrition are very likely to result in the absence of public intervention. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969308
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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will J; Ivanic, Maros - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints--were meant to partially insulate domestic markets from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969350
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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
Martin, Will J; Huang, Jikun; Liu, Yu; Rozelle, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite … taxation of agriculture has declined sharply, with the abolition of production quotas and procurement pricing, and reductions … education, and reductions in barriers to mobility of labor out of agriculture. Many challenges remain in improving rural incomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720171
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Trade Theory with Numbers: Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres; Costinot, Arnaud - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We review a recent body of theoretical work that aims to put numbers on the consequences of globalization. A unifying theme of our survey is methodological. We rely on gravity models and demonstrate how they can be used for counterfactual analysis. We highlight how various economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969334
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Is Protection Really for Sale? A Survey and Directions for Future Research
Krishna, Kala; Imai, Susumu; Katayama, Hajime - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper critically and selectively surveys the literature on protection for sale and discusses directions for future research in this area. It suggests that the standard approach needs to be augmented to provide more compelling tests of this model.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085090
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Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation
Anderson, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Most empirical policy work requires the aggregation of policies. Trade policy aggregation exemplifies the aggregation problem poignantly, with thousands of highly dispersed trade barriers. This paper provides methods of policy aggregation that are consistent with two common objectives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774757
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The Impacts of an East Asia FTA on Foreign Trade in East Asia
Urata, Shujiro; Kiyota, Kozo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
This paper attempts to examine the impact of an East Asia FTA on trade patterns in East Asia by using a multi-sector computable general equilibrium model. The model used in this analysis is the standard GTAP model and GTAP database developed by Hertel (1997) and his colleagues of Purdue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778428
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Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?
Amiti, Mary; Romalis, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
by higher tariff cuts in agriculture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088700
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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry: Domestic Production and Foreign Competition
Davis, Joseph H.; Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to 1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049876
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Using the New Products Margin to Predict the Industry-Level Impact of Trade Reform
Kehoe, Timothy J.; Ruhl, Kim; Rossbach, Jack M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper develops a methodology for predicting the impact of trade liberalization on exports by industry (3-digit ISIC) based on the pre-liberalization distribution of exports by product (5-digit SITC). Using the results of Kehoe and Ruhl (2013) that much of the growth in trade after trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721185