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Trade Barrier Volatility and Domestic Price Stabilization : Evidence from Agriculture

Anderson, Kym - 2017

-- the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade … to raise their import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World … through new World Trade Organization rules could help alleviate the extent to which government responses to exogenous price …

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Changing Contributions of Different Agricultural Policy Instruments to Global Reductions in Trade and Welfare

Croser, Johanna L. - 2017

Trade negotiators and policy advisors are keen to know the relative contribution of different farm policy instruments to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete indicators, especially when (especially in developing...

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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What's at Stake for Developing Countries?

Anderson, Kym - 2016

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym - 2017

To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...

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How Do Governments Respond to Food Price Spikes? Lessons from the Past

Anderson, Kym - 2017

trade between nations can play in bringing stability to the world?s food markets. More effort appears to be needed before a …

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The World Trade Organization's Doha Cotton Initiative : A Tale of Two Issues

Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2016

Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton …

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Specialisation patterns and the synchronicity of regional employment cycles in Europe

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Heine, Jens M. (contributor) - 2004

This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different indicators of similarity of sectoral structure, it improves on...

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Instability of the Eurozone? : On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Gros, Daniel (contributor) - 2007

"This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and...

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Enlarging the EMU to the east : what effects on trade?

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Spies, Julia (contributor) - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. Overcoming biases related to endogeneity, omitted variables and sample selection, our results...

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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries : a preliminary explanation using a public choice approach

Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 2005

This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...

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