This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food … on estimates of changes in food prices due to the Round obtained in previous studies, and on detailed data on food trade … by country and commodity, the present study shows that the increase in net food import costs are likely to be smaller …

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 … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and trade policy. Specifically, unilateral actions give rise to a …

Germany and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (the CE4) have been in a process of deepening economic …

Analysis on macroeconomic determinants of protection in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, and Poland, while …

developments. But is this also the case in transition economies? Using a panel of monthly data for the Czech Republic, Hungary …, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, and Slovenia for the period 1994-1999 it is shown that historical values for interest rates …