Giordani, Paolo; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
complementarity between the price of food in international markets and trade policy. Specifically, unilateral actions give rise to a …This paper studies the relationship between trade policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … averse, governments may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large food price shocks. This creates a …