In this paper I test the reciprocal relationship between agricultural policy and authoritarian regime durability. Farm trade and subsidy policies are used by undemocratic governments to solve distributional conflicts, and thus are a function of political threats to their rule. Simultaneously,...

Policymakers seek objectives that can be conflicting under a budget constraint. Solving this problem requires a multi-criteria decision-making technique whereby equations of a dynamic computable general equilibrium model are constraints to a policy optimisation problem. We illustrate this...