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Impact of European Food Safety Border Inspections on Agri-Food Exports : Evidence from Chinese Firms
Beestermöller, Matthias - 2016
. We combine information on rejections with Chinese firm-level export data. Border rejections amplify the turnover among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993696
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Measuring the Integration of Staple Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Cross Border Trade in the East African Community
Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy - CESifo - 2011
This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914284
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Measuring the Integration of Staple Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Cross Border Trade in the East African Community
Ihle, Rico - 2015
This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038042
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The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) and Tariffs: Price Behaviour with Imperfectly Competitive Market Intermediaries
MacLaren, Donald - CESifo - 2014
The SSM is a proposal from the G-33 Group in the Doha Round negotiations in which developing countries would be allowed to use contingent tariffs to control import surges of food commodities and/or downward spikes in their border prices. The principal objective is to safeguard the livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735189
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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and export policy. Specifically, unilateral actions by exporting …, governments respond by imposing export restrictions (subsidies), thus exacerbating the initial shock and soliciting further export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542015
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The Special Safeguard Mechanisms (SSM) and Tariffs : Price Behaviour with Imperfectly Competitive Market Intermediaries
MacLaren, Donald - 2014
The SSM is a proposal from the G-33 Group in the Doha Round negotiations in which developing countries would be allowed to use contingent tariffs to control import surges of food commodities and/or downward spikes in their border prices. The principal objective is to safeguard the livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059474
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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2021
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and export policy. Specifically, unilateral actions by exporting …, governments respond by imposing export restrictions (subsidies), thus exacerbating the initial shock and soliciting further export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315923
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Atlantic Versus Pacific Agreement in Agri-Food Sectors : Does the Winner Take it All?
Disdier, Anne-Célia - 2015
Trade liberalization of the agri-food sector is a sensitive topic in both Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions. Using a general equilibrium model, we assess the potential impact of these agreements. The US agri-food sectors would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018205
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Agricultural Exports, Tariffs and Growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014
This article presents a Ricardian model of trade with learning-by-doing to study the effect of barriers to trade in products with low growth potential on the long-run economic growth. The model shows that, when elasticity of demand for the product with a lower learning potential is lower than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059480
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Trade with Endogenous Transportation Costs: The Value of LNG Exports
Oglend, Atle; Osmundsen, Petter; Kleppe, Tore Selland - CESifo - 2015
endogenous, the LNG export benefit can drop by as much as 20-50% relative to the case of exogenous cost. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185622