The ultimate impact of multilateral and own-country agricultural policy reforms will depend on the extent to which those reforms “pass-through” across national borders, within countries, and from local markets down to the household level. At the heart of policy pass-through is the question...

Recent studies into price transmission have recognized the important role played by transport and transaction costs. Threshold models are one approach to accommodate such costs. We develop a generalized Threshold Error Correction Model to test for the presence and form of threshold behavior in...

The potential impacts of multilateral trade liberalisation on developing countries are the subject of numerous controversies. One particular concern is that Brazil, a major agricultural exporter and a country with one of the world’s most unequal income distributions, will reap a substantial...