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Assessing the Impact of Recent Trade Policy Changes in the Banana Market under Alternative Market Structures

Anania, Giovanni; Scoppola, Margherita - 2011

assesses how the analysis of the implications of the mostrecent changes in the EU import regimes for bananas is affected by the …

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Economic Partnership Agreements and WTO negotiations. A quantitative assessment of trade preference granting and erosion in the banana market

Anania, Giovanni - 2008

the EU granted ACP countries with the recent Economic PartnershipAgreements (EPA) and of the possible erosion of these … performed suggestthat the impact of the EPA on the production and consumption of bananas in the EU will be limited …,while benefits for ACP countries will be significant (at the expense of MFN exporters). However, afinal agreement in the WTO DDA …

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Assessing the Impact of Recent Trade Policy Changes in the Banana Market under Alternative Market Structures

Anania, Giovanni; Scoppola, Margherita - 2010

policy analysis. It addresses this issue with reference torecent changes in the EU import regime for bananas, namely the … changes in the EU import regimes for bananasis affected by the assumptions made on the prevailing market structure. …

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Impacts of Weather and Time Horizon Selection on Crop Insurance Ratemaking: A Conditional Distribution Approach

Woodard, Joshua D. - 2011

An important issue in the agricultural actuarial literature is the extent to which sample period selection affects the accuracy of insurance rating. A conditional Weibull distribution approach is developed which explicitly models the interaction of weather, technology, and other variables...

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Consumer Choice of Private Label or National Brand: The case of organic and non-organic milk

Zhuang, Yan; Dimitri, Carolyn; Jaenicke, Edward C. - 2009

We use a two-stage, sample selection model to investigate organic milk purchases using Neilsen’s Homescan data. In the first stage, households decide on a weekly basis to buy mainly organic milk or non-organic milk. Results from this stage show that higher income, better education, having...

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Consumer racial discrimination: A reassessment of the market for baseball cards

McGarrity, J.; Palmer, H. D.; Poitras, M. - 1999

Research on the presence of consumer racial discrimination in the baseball labor and memorabilia markets has produced contradictory empirical results. While studies of baseball salaries-find no evidence of discrimination, Nardinelli and Simon (1990) and Andersen and La Croix (1991) use data from...

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Household portfolio choices under (non-)linear income risk: an empirical framework

Gálvez, Julio

Este trabajo desarrolla un método flexible y semiestructural para cuantificar empíricamente la transmisión no lineal de los shocks de renta a las decisiones de elección de cartera de los hogares, tanto en el margen extensivo como en el intensivo. Modelizo la participación en el mercado de...

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What Gravity Models Can Tell Us about the Position of German FDI in Central and Eastern Europe

Borrmann, Christine; Jungnickel, Rolf; Keller, Dietmar - 2005

between the four nearby core countries and the other six EU accession countries. Estimates are done both on the basis of an in …

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Estimation Issues in Single Commodity Gravity Trade Models

Prehn, Soren; Brummer, Bernhard - 2011

Recently gravity trade models are applied to disaggregated trade data. Here manyzeros are characteristic. In the presence of excess zeros usual Poisson Pseudo MaximumLikelihood (PPML) is still consistent, the variance covariance matrix howeveris invalid. Correct economic interpretation however...

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Effects of Regional Trade Agreements on Trade in Agrifood Products: Evidence from Gravity Modeling Using Disaggregated Data

Sarker, Rakhal; Jayasinghe, Sampath - 2004

The recent proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) has intensified the debate on their merits. A growing literature has addressed this policy debate, focusing on the welfare and trade effects of RTAs and their likely impacts on the multilateral trading system. Some view them as...

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