This session focuses on policy impact analyses in the US and international markets, with a special reference to trade. From Minimum Access to Tariffication of Rice Imports in Japan and South Korea; Dae-Seob Lee, Eric Wailes, and James Hansen, University of Arkansas. The Economics of Decoupled...

Dynamic adjustment of Japanese livestock markets is analyzed under two alternative import policies: the 1988 Japanese Beef Market Access Agreement (BMAA) and complete liberalization of Japanese beef import policies. Modeling problems associated with these policies include the change from a quota...

Enlargement of the European Community (EC), recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and structural policy changes in the Community have generated economic conditions whose combined long-term effect will be a decrease in the demand for US agricultural exports to the EC. Factors...

Analysis the tests for quasi-separability, net and perfect substitutability developed and implemented on a demand system model of the Japanese meat sector. Net complimentarity between chicken and dairy beef and chicken and pork; Japanese Wagyu beef as a separate commodity to both imported beef...

MERC Staff Report ES-2-99, 1988