they can compete effectively within U.S. markets. Free trade agreements have reduced monetary barriers to trade, but ….S. growers. This paper discusses points addressed by VanSickle, Eastwood, and Woods concerning trade and horticultural market …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982â … marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas is about equal to the market if a 24- or 20-month market benchmark … harvest benchmark is used. The sensitivity of marketing performance to the market benchmark considered is explained by the …

regarding expected slaughter timings and improve fed cattle price forecasts and marketing strategies. Private data were …

market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail … market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices may be higher and welfare may be lower in free trade than in … autarky, thus reversing the standard effects of trade liberalization. Second, the pro-competitive effects of trade …

international trade and two groups of countries that differ with respect to fuel demand and environmental damage. It investigates …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …