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How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels

Sexton, Steven E. - 2015

sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper … estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically engineered (GE) seeds on food supply by exploiting the spatial and … yield gains range from 65% for GE cotton to 12.4% for soybeans and appear to be higher in the developing world than in …

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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade

Carter, Colin Andre; Steinbach, Sandro - 2022

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

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Why Do Countries Seek Regional Trade Agreements?

Whalley, John - 2021

This paper emphasizes the range of factors which enter country calculations to seek regional trading arrangements. These include conventional access benefits, but extend to safe haven concerns, the use of trade arrangements to underpin security arrangements, and tactical interplay between...

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Are Free Trade Agreements Contagious?

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2010

interdependence and other political, economical and geographical determinants of FTA formation. Our main finding is that contagion is …

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Trade Diversion and Trade Deficits : The Case of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Russ, Katheryn Niles - 2019

We study whether tariff preferences conferred on South Korean goods through the implementation of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) drew U.S. import demand away from other U.S. trading partners through the phenomenon known as trade diversion. In the two years following the...

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Wage Effects of a U.S. - Mexican Free Trade Agreement

Leamer, Edward E. - 2021

This paper analyzes the extent to which education will be subsidized when the subsidy rate is determined by majority voting. The analysis takes place in a framework where education is a discrete decision and all individuals would like to obtain an education because of its effect on future...

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The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Trefler, Daniel - 2021

The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) provides a unique window on the effects of trade liberalization. It was an … paper uses the 1989-96 Canadian FTA experience to examine the short-run adjustment costs and long-run efficiency gains that … sources of FTA-induced labour productivity growth. Surprisingly, this growth is not due to rising output per plant, increased …

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International Agreements on Product Standard : An Incomplete Contracting Theory

Battigalli, Pierpaolo; Maggi, Giovanni - 2021

in states of the world that are not covered by the ex ante agreement. We identify conditions under which a DSP can …

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Policy Choice : Theory and Evidence from Commitment Via International Trade Agreements

Limão, Nuno - 2010

available and an efficiency ranking is feasible: tariffs vs. non-tariff barriers (NTBs). In our policy choice model a government … the less efficient NTBs. This generates two key testable predictions (i) there is imperfect policy substitution, i ….e. tighter tariff constraints are not fully offset by the higher NTBs they generate and (ii) the decision to commit to …

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Gravity and Comparative Advantage : Estimation of Trade Elasticities for the Agricultural Sector

Heerman, Kari - 2018

In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...

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