Recent periods of volatile food prices have prompted several import-dependent Arab micro-states to consider at least some domestic production as a way of mitigating extremely volatile food prices, which even in rich micro-states can have adverse health and economic effects. Using Qatar as a case...

Using Qatar as a case study, we exploit a novel micro-data set for 102 raw agricultural imported commodities on a shipment-by-shipment basis over the period January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2010. The data comprise over half a million individual observations, with a very rich set of characteristic...