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The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transfirmational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...
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Santini 2022). Currently, though, international agricultural trade is facing supply chain disruptions and rising world market … China-US trade war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are further rattling the food market. As the world's largest consumer … of agricultural goods, China's trade strategies influence world markets, with ripple-down effects for consumers around …
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-identical producers within the same industry, lobbying for tighter environmental rules turns out to be an important strategy of raising …-industrial competition engage in counter-lobbying and when they remain silent. …
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We analyze the determinants of environmental policy when two firms engage in two types of lobbying against a … restriction on allowed pollution: General lobbying increases the total amount of allowed pollution, which is beneficial for both … firms. Private lobbying increases the individual pollution standard of the lobbying firm, but has a negative or zero effect …
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The aim of this paper is to provide a review of policy instruments aimed at controlling pollution from agricultural diffuse sources, and compare their pros and cons. The review also includes a description of instruments introduced through recent reforms of the European Common Agricultural Policy...
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In this article we apply and extend the model elaborated by Acemoglu and Verdier in their seminal paper (2000), to examine how the economy represented in their theoretical framework responds to an exogenous change in the agent's incentive. In particular, we focus on the consequences of a famous...
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This paper studies the consequences of certain widespread policies for the quality and sustainability of growth. These policies cause economic inefficiency, environmental destruction and increased poverty. The paper develops a political economy model to show why the existence of such policies is...
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"instruments" - of environmental policy, and considers, in particular, experience around the world with the relatively new breed of …. Finally, under reducing government subsidies, I review a number of specific examples from around the world. By defining market …
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This paper critically assesses the literature on the relationship between economic integration and the environment. In particular, we investigate how trade liberalisation and capital market integration affect environmental policy and thus environmental quality. Conversely, we also study how...
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world economy. For a given level of policy stringency, countries with more flexible environmental policies are more likely …
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