Technical trade barriers (TBTs) have become increasingly important barriers to trade. In agricultural trade, they are often implemented as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures. Karnal bunt, a fungal disease of wheat, is one example where these types of measures have been implemented. The...

This research offers an empirical analysis of the economic effects on Morocco from implementing a Free Trade Area (FTA) with the European Union (EU) signed in 1996. Since the FTA translates largely into unilateral discriminatory tariff elimination against EU imports, there are concerns about the...

The European Union (EU) is perhaps the only regional integration scheme that has remained viable and grown successfully over the years. The proposed accession of the ten Central and East European Countries (CEECs) to the fifteen-nation EU (EU-15), to form a twenty-five nation customs union, has...

The study used a modified version of an applied general equilibrium model and database, GTAP, to generate comparative static projections about the future patterns of production, consumption, trade and agricultural protection, focusing on the SEA-4 countries. Exogenous regional macroeconomic...

The path to Turkey-EU integration has not been a straightforward one. It has historical, cultural and political as well as economic dimensions. Within this wide spectrum, the purpose of this thesis is to analyze the implications of integrating Turkey's agricultural sector with that of the EU. As...

This thesis builds on the GTAP-Dyn (Ianchovichina and McDougall, 2001) dynamic general equilibrium (GE) model of the global economy. It presents model modifications and estimates of key economic relationships in order to improve the quality of the long run projections with the GTAP-Dyn model for...

This thesis analyzes some of the fundamental, direct consequences of the East Asian meltdown for the global economy--and specifically for the North American food and agricultural producers. To study the impact of this economic crisis, the study develops a novel dynamic global general equilibrium...

There is abundant literature analyzing the effects of policy changes on poverty and the poor, the majority of whom are concentrated in rural areas and employed in agricultural activities. However this literature remains mute on whether or not the policy impacts on poverty are likely to be...

Infrastructure and institutional settings for international trade play a key role in the efficient exchange of merchandise goods across borders. Once final goods depart the producer warehouse, a number of legal procedures associated with customs and security need to be completed at the...