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

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

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 …

the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing …

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 …

percent). Since the impact of convergence on the supply side is much more muted, convergence puts upward pressure on world … food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …