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FTAA, Brazil and United States : Why the Negotiations in Agriculture Came to a Deadlock
Araujo, Marco A. F.; Lima, Marcelo Jorge F. - 2015
constructing a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Between the FTAA issues to be negotiated, agriculture was particularly … agriculture came to a deadlock. Game Theory was used to formalize the explanation, setting the scenario as one arena of two … seminars. The main conclusion is that a conflict of interests in market access, export subsidies and other measures with …
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The US Agricultural Act of 2014 : Overview and Analysis
Zulauf, Carl - 2015
This paper summarizes the evolutionary trends in US farm policy that have culminated in the 2014 farm bill, describes the new farm bill programs in depth, and highlights the key policy issues that arise and will play out over its planned five-year duration. This new US farm bill eliminates fixed...
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When to go local, when to go edible : trade, technology and food security
Koch, William L.; Sadler, Thomas R. - 2009
We develop a variation of the Grossman-Helpman Protection for Saleʺ model, where organized groups, representing various sectors of the economy, influence government policy. In particular, this paper focuses on the rise of food prices and a greater level of influence of a food sector lobby,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854753
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Market and welfare effects of mandatory country-of-origin labeling in the US specialty crops sector : an application to fresh market apples
Plastina, Alejandro; Giannakas, Kōnstantinos; Pick, … - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 4, pp. 1044-1069
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US policy contributions to agricultural commodity price fluctuations, 2006 - 12
Rausser, Gordon C.; De Gorter, Harry - 2013
spikes have had the heaviest economic and social impact on developing nations, where agriculture accounts for a sizable … environmental, energy, and agricultural organized interest groups that continues to evolve. -- agriculture in international trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725740
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Can numerical models estimate indirect land-use change?
Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - 2012
Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...
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Modelling Distortionary Aspects of the US Wheat Program and Policy Reform
Labson, Stephen - 2016
Evaluation of US agricultural policy reform is complicated by the interaction of price support programs and production constraints. Researchers have typically presumed that price support policies as observed in the US wheat program increase the producer incentive at the margin,' however, little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005520
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'Water' in the U.S. Ethanol Tax Credit and Mandate : Implications for Rectangular Deadweight Costs and the Corn-Oil Price Relationship
de Gorter, Harry - 2015
mandates are binding or if price contingent corn production subsidies like deficiency payments are available. Empirical … itself. We discuss several reasons for this including how corn production subsidies cause the corn price to fall below that … which would occur if there was no ethanol policy. Therefore, without corn production subsidies in the past, no ethanol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707756
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Tariffs, Agricultural Subsidies, and the 2020 US Presidential Election : Unintended Consequences
Choi, Jaerim; Lim, Sunghun - 2021
universe of actual county-level MFP disbursement data, we find that US agricultural subsidies outweighed Chinese retaliatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241749
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The Economics of U.S. Ethanol Import Tariffs with a Consumption Mandate and Tax Credit
de Gorter, Harry; Just, David R. - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of an ethanol import tariff in conjunction with a consumption mandate and tax credit. A tax credit alone acts as a subsidy to ethanol producers, equally benefiting exporters like Brazil. If an import tariff is imposed to offset the tax credit, world prices of...
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