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Recently biodiesel has become more prominent in countries of the European Union (EU). The rapidly increasing domestic production and consumption of biodiesel is accompanied by increasing trade flows. It is questionable if these trade flows are caused mainly by EU regulations concerning trade or...
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The 2003 reforms of the Common Agricultural policy of the European Union introduced decoupled income transfers as the …
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Although trade integration has potential benefits for developing countries, it is disputed whether trade liberalization processes are, per se, sufficient for poverty reduction and inequality abatement. Abundant work has analyzed the link between tariff reduction, poverty levels and inequality in...
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Cross-border trade in food commodities within sub-regional economic blocks in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) is believed to be faster, cheaper, more convenient and welfare-enhancing than overseas trade between SSA countries and the USA, EU and the BRIC countries. The difficulty of commodity arbitrage...
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Significant changes have taken place on the world wheat market over the last decade. Russia, a former net wheat importer has become a leading exporter with a world market share of 13.8 percent in 2009/2010. Though there are several studies on the pricing behaviour of Canadian and US wheat...
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Agro-food trade between the BRIC countries has increased. Brazil and China contributed to the rapid increase of agro-food trade. The Russian Federation experienced the stagnating and the most volatile agro-food trade over time. The composition of agro-food trade for the BRIC countries varies by...
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agricultural sector on international markets. We show that at the symmetric equilibrium under free trade, restrictions on …
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Trade liberalization of the agri-food sector is a sensitive topic in both Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions. Using a general equilibrium model, we assess the potential impact of these agreements. The US agri-food sectors would...
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A stable agricultural income is often regarded as a way to achieve a better environmental performance in this sector …, EU institutions have encouraged the expansion of agricultural insurance. With different degrees of public support …
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sector. Earlier studies on the effect of exchange rate on agricultural output focussed on aggregate output and ignored the … possibility of differences in the response of components of agricultural output. Besides, the fact that there may be a possibility … of reverse causality between the exchange rate and agricultural output has been ignored in earlier studies. This study …
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