environmental costs associated with them. Critics have argued that economic growth, trade liberalization, and increased primary …

Introduction to the theory of international trade and finance with applications to current policy issues. From the ….e. international trade, and what determines the flow of savings and investments from one country to another, i.e. international finance … globalization, free trade agreements, the large current account deficits of the US, the prospects for exchange rates, and the calls …

In this paper we investigate the effects of trade on the national minimum quality standards applied by two trading … standards set by national regulators will tend to unduly favour producer interests. As always, trade changes the balance of … lobbying access to its regulatory authority. As a result trade raises the minimum standard in the exporting country and may …

Proposals for agricultural trade reform put forward by the main protagonists remain far apart, with little sign of … with the Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model, a static, multi-commodity, multi-region, partial equilibrium trade …

by trade and adjustment costs. This paper focuses on the impact of the EU Commission’s sugar policy reform and the … model to replicate least developed countries bilateral trade with Europe. Particularly, the gravity approach is employed to … model the abolition of import tariffs for sugar originating in least developed countries, subject to trade costs, while the …

The significance of standards in international agricultural trade is continuously rising. Due to their complexity …

countries in the framework of imperfectly competitive markets with the focus on the global and inter-American peanut trade. This … effects, in particular increase the incentives to overuse certain trade policies. The results suggest that the South American … of a tariff may still be mutually welfare enhancing. In the broader context of global peanut trade, multi-lateral tariff …