While the recent commodity price crisis brings questions regarding the general developement path of the CAP since 1992, this paper envisages returning to Rooseveltian recipes, after modernization.

Recent developments in world food markets stress the importance of identifying the sources of food price volatility. This paper develops a nonlinear Cobweb model with endogenous volatility which accounts for several characteristics of agricultural commodity markets (seasonality, storage) and...

In this paper, we try to evaluate the change in welfare gains and their distribution due to trade liberalization when imperfect information is considered. The results of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, using GTAP database and representing goods as well as capital...

Agricultural price volatility is "bad". But where does it come from? Remedies are completely different for "endogenous" or "exogenous" fluctuations. The recent crisis seems to indicate that exogenous remedies have been applied to endogenous fluctuations.

Most economists congregate on the idea that commodity price instability should be reduced. Since at least one century a variety of instruments have been designed to that end, without much success, especially for agricultural commodities. The failure might be a consequence of the fact that most...

Many computable general equilibrium models have been set up recently, in order to assess the benefits of trade liberalisation, especially in agriculture. Although figures magnitudes differ from one model to another, they cannot reach any other conclusion than positive benefits. On the other...

Instabilité des prix et protectionnisme caractérisent le marché mondial du sucre. Après avoir souligné les spécificités de ce marché, les auteurs analysent les hypothèses, les résultats et les limites de deux modèles de la filière sucre mondiale. La prise en compte de l'impact de...

[fre] L'indice de "productivité globale" de Vincent est décrit, et utilisé pour mesurer la productivité des agricoles adhérentes au RICA (Réseau Comptable d'Information Agricole). Il ne semble pas y avoir eu de de productivité pour ces exploitations de 1 971 à 1 978, mais en raison de la...