The interconnections of agriculture and energy markets have increased through the rise in the new biofuel agribusinesses and the oil–ethanol–corn linkages. The question is whether these linkages have a causal structure by which oil prices affect commodity prices and through these links,...

The present work attempts based on the analysis of linear structure equationmodels, to compile regulation factors of the success of agricultural enterprises atthe management level. For generation and evaluation reasons, the findings fromthe factor research are the focus of the study. After...

This work was aimed at analysing the effects of the sudden food price explosion followed by pricecrash which occurred recently on the foreign trade of the food economy. Comparison of the balances of thedifferent countries was difficult due to the differences in the absolute dimensions; therefore...

Self management of natural resources has started to gain increasing attention as an alternative tool to command-and-control and market-based tools, but the fundamental question remains: is self management economically beneficial such that it should be promoted in the first place? This article...

Paper for presentation at the Northeastern Agricultural & Resource Economics Association’s Workshop on Economics and Child Nutrition Programs, AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23, 2011.

This paper aims to provide a flexible methodological framework to estimate import demandmodels, which explicitly considers the stochastic properties of data and the endogenous/exogenousnature of some variables. The French imports of virgin olive oil have been used as a case study withSpain,...

A spatial price equilibrium (SPE) model of the world sugar market is programmed. The model coversmore than hundred regions and contains sugar in as a sole product. It has a detailed coverage ofpolicies and bilateral trade agreements. It is programmed as a mixed complementarity problem(MCP) in...

A simple but new theoretical approach is used to analyse ex-ante the impact of tariff reduction. Thismethodology is based on the assumption of a constant price relation between each direct substitutableproduct. No elasticities are needed, but accurate import and domestic prices of the most...

In this paper, the welfare results in trade liberalisation scenarios in global CGE models (like GTAP)are analysed. The default modeling strategy in trade is the Armington assumption with bilateral tradeflows in industries. The negative terms of trade effects that often dominate the negative...

Seafood consumption in the U.S. has increased over the period 1990 to 2003. A large percentage of the seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported. The most important seafood products imported to the U.S. are shrimp, Atlantic salmon, tilapia, catfish, crayfish, mussels and a mixture of mollusks. In...