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Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries
Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
advice to rely on safety nets and world trade. Despite the limitations of food price stabilization policies, they are … national interest of many countries to adjust trade policies to take advantage of the world market in order to achieve domestic … price stability. When countercyclical trade policies become widespread, the result is a thinner and less reliable world …
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969350
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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement
Orden, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
This paper evaluates the influence of diverse U.S. agricultural interest groups on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were converted to tariffs in January 1994 and all tariffs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775000
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Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage: Old Idea, New Evidence
Costinot, Arnaud; Donaldson, Dave - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
crops of 1.6 million parcels of land in 55 countries around the world. Crucially, this dataset contains information about … output predicted by Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage. Despite all of the real-world considerations from which this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227931
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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
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 strongly negative for most commodities, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720171
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French Wine and the U.S. Boycott of 2003: Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?
Ashenfelter, Orley; Ciccarella, Stephen M. Ciccarella, Jr. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In early 2003, France actively tried to thwart the plans of the Bush administration to build international support for a war to depose Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. In response, calls in the United States for a boycott of French products, wine in particular, rebounded through all forms of media....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829441
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Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers
Gilbert, Christopher L.; Varangis, Panos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
world rather than domestic prices. Producer prices have tended to rise as a share of fob prices as intermediation costs and … in lower world prices. Farmers therefore get a higher share of a lower price. Cocoa is the market where these changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774941
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Antidumping and the Death of Trade
Besedes, Tibor; Prusa, Thomas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We investigate the extent to which antidumping actions eliminate trade altogether. Using quarterly export data for products involved in U.S. antidumping cases we find that antidumping actions increase the hazard rate by more than fifty percent. We find strong evidence of investigation effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969282
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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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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, Bent E.; Volosovych, Vadym - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969373