as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …

, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …

The Special Safeguard Mechanism was a key issue in the July 2008 failure to reach agreement in the World Trade … uses a stochastic simulation model of the world wheat market to investigate the effects of policy makers implementing … percent in some regions, with world wheat trade falling by 4.7 percent. The price measures discriminate against low price …

-- the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade … to raise their import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World … through new World Trade Organization rules could help alleviate the extent to which government responses to exogenous price …

Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional …

For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those …