During 1985-93 the U.S. Government provided $4.9 billion in subsidies to targeted foreign buyers of U.S. wheat under … of wheat have not opposed the program; and the program received an initial boost because of its use of large government …-owned wheat stocks, allowing it to be treated as budget neutral in Congress. An economic argument that carried political weight …

This paper uses regression analysis to study the causes and impacts of the Export Enhancement Program for wheat. We … attributable to the overvaluation of the dollar in the 1980s, not the increase in EC subsidies to wheat farmers in 1985. We also …

the result of mechanization rather than biological innovations. This paper shows that, to the contrary, U.S. wheat … grown and cultural practices employed. Without these changes, vast expanses of the wheat belt could not have sustained …

approach is illustrated in an application to the dynamics of productivity applied to historical data on wheat yield in Kansas …

> equates to a 0.5%, 0.6%, and 0.8% yield increase for corn, soybeans, and wheat, respectively. Viewed retrospectively, 10%, 30 …

affects the markets of wheat (3%) and European natural gas (12%). However, substantial heterogeneity is observed among the …

school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …

protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …