Recent literature about gravity models points out the importance of institutional frictions in the international market of agricultural products beyond the traditional economics variables as transport costs reducing the mass of trade in bilateral relationships. In particular, previous...

Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically modified (GM)crops have been quickly adopted world wide, but some GM crops/varieties have notreceived regulatory approval for use in some importing countries, leading toasynchronicity in regulatory approvals. In this context, the...

The purpose of this paper is to seek a breakthrough for the Korea-EU FTA negotiation inagriculture which started last year, but has not made much progress yet. The EU has been askingKorea to open its agricultural market to the same extent that was agreed upon in Korea’s free tradeagreement...

With the advent of the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, as well as the MillenniumDevelopment Goals aiming to reduce poverty by 50 percent by 2015, poverty impacts oftrade reforms have attracted increasing attention. This has been particularly true ofagricultural trade reform due to the...

This paper aims to shed light on the potential interests of developing countries in reforms to domestic support for agriculture in the OECD economies. In order to accomplish this goal, we begin by reviewing the literature on the impacts of domestic support on key variables, including farm...