It has been largely ignored in the commodity stabilization literature that export quota schemes can cause a co-existence between a controlled and an uncontrolled market. This article analyzes the welfare implications of such a scheme on non-participating importing countries. The determinants of...

This article analyzes determinants of agricultural price protection for one important food, wheat, in a pooled cross-country and time-series analysis. For the aggregate sample it is shown that wheat price protection increases with a rising level of economic development and with a growing import...

Nationale Agrarpolitiken in Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern werden vornehmlich beschlossen, um nationale Ziele zu verwirklichen. Dies hat jedoch oft Nebenwirkungen auf den Agraraußenhandel der Entwicklungsländer. Agrarpolitiken der Industrieländer beeinflussen Niveau und Stabilität der...

This analysis is concerned with the direct impacts of the regulation of food markets under SACU on food security in the BLS countries. There are two basic rules in SACU determining trade in food and non-food products (Ettinger, 1974; Maasdorp, 1986). The first of these is that common tariffs exist...

This article shows how national interests in price-changing international commodity agreements can be measured. Two approaches are distinguished. Firstly, changes in national interests can be measured that are caused by the introduction of an international commodity agreement in an otherwise...

This article gives an introduction into the economics of food sanctions. It is shown which economic impacts arise from food sanctions and how they are affected by their determinants. The empirical evidence is reviewed and unresolved questions are elaborated. Theoretically, an export embargo for...

Alle Studien zum Ernährungssicherungsproblem, die einen weltweiten Ansatz wählen, kommen zum einheitlichen Ergebnis, daß Afrika die Problemregion ist. Während in den Entwicklungsländern insgesamt, in Asien und Lateinamerika die Nahrungsmittelproduktion pro Kopf im Zeitraum 1961-80 gestiegen...