Replaced with revised version of paper 07/02/10.

Forthcoming in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Agricultural support payments that cause no or minimal production distortions are exempt from World Trade Organization restrictions. If and how much decoupled payments, such as direct payments in the U.S., affect agricultural production remains an open empirical question with implications for...

For more than thirty years, studies about the effect of the exchange rate on exports have been conducted. However, few have considered the combined effect of the exchange rate on imported inputs into the agricultural system and the exports of final agricultural products those inputs produce. A...

This paper seeks to understand the main sources of uncertainty in assessing the impacts of climate change on agricultural output, international trade, and poverty. We incorporate biophysical uncertainty by sampling from a distribution of productivity shocks reflecting the impacts of climate on...

Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...

O Brasil e os Estados Unidos são considerados os principais participantes no mercado mundial do suco de laranja. O objetivo do paper é analisar a influência dos subsídios agrícolas americanos sobre as exportações do suco de laranja do Brasil, no período entre 1991 e 2006. O modelo...

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar se o país apresenta Vantagens Comparativas Reveladas para as exportações de grão, farelo e óleo de soja e identificar a orientação regional das exportações de cada uma dessas commodities para os principais mercados consumidores. Para tanto,...

This study was funded by the the University Transportation Center for Mobility, Texas Transportation Institute