With the implementation of the Russian import ban as a countermeasure to the EU sanctions in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, trade relations between the EU and Russia reached their lowest level in 2014. In this paper, we model several trade policy scenarios and assess their effects on...

The WTO Agreement on Agriculture applies to those "agricultural products" as defined in its Annex 1. This definition expressly excludes "fish and fish products" from the scope of application of the Agreement. In light of this exclusion, the paper is intended to provide a historical account of...

This paper provides a systematic welfare-based approach to analyze the impact of non-tariffmeasures (NTMs) on trade and welfare in presence of market imperfections. We focus onstandard-like measures such as technical barriers and sanitary and phytosanitary regulations.The approach overcomes the...

A meta-analysis explains the variation in estimated trade effects of technical barriersto trade broadly defined, using available estimates from the empirical international tradeliterature, and accounting for data sampling and methodology differences. Agriculture and foodindustries tend to be...

We derive a method to econometrically estimate the tariff equivalent and foregone trade effectsof a prohibitive technical barrier to trade (TBT) based on Wales and Woodland’s Kuhn-Tuckerapproach to corner solutions in consumer choice. The method overcomes the lack of observeddata on bilateral...

In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that...

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,...

Some consumers and environmentalists espouse purchasing food that is produced locally or nationally. An appealing expression of this is the "food miles" concept, which reflects the aim of minimizing the distance food has traveled before reaching the consumer. The concept of food miles is flawed...

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with...