For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...

We have witnessed increasing concerns about the impacts of food safety standards on agricultural trade. This paper explores how Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures affect Vietnam's rice exports. Using different estimation methods to handle overdispersion and zero trade flows for data of...

There is no consensus on what defines a reference for the world rice price. A review on rice as a differentiated commodity shed two important insights. First, it confirms that few studies have considered segmentation of rice in their price analysis. Second, Thai 5% brokens has often been...