The study examined the effects of various trade policy instruments such as tariff, import restrictions, outright ban on rice import and other determinants on the import demand for rice in Nigeria between 1960 and 2007. Adopting a dynamic modeling approach, the unit root test of the series used...

Forthcoming in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Replaced with revised version of poster 07/21/11.

In the last two decades the Italian food retail landscape has changed considerably also thanks to the LD 114/1998 and subsequent trade liberalization laws. In this study, we investigate the impact of LD 114/1998 on the structure of the Italian food retailing industry and on the food and beverage...