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Europe's Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology: Precaution or Trade Distortion?

Sheldon, Ian - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 2 (2004) 2

In July 2003, the European Parliament voted on amendments to the European Unions (EU) system of regulation for agricultural biotechnology, most notably the rules for mandatory labeling of food products that contain traces of genetically modified (GM) ingredients. The expectation is that...

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Integration of situational and reward elements for fair privacy principles and preferences (F3P)

Skinner, Geoffrey; Han, Song; Chang, Elizabeth - 2006

. Many of the proposed privacy protection schemes do not give due consideration to the contextual, and more importantly …

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Measuring Protection: Mission Impossible?

Salvatici, Luca; Cipollina, Maria - 2006

In the international trade literature there seems to be some confusion between "openness" and "protection" measures … extent of the protection granted by policies rather than on the degree of openness of the economy. Given the huge size of …

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Modelling Euro-Mediterranean Agricultural Trade

Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria; Martinez-Gomez, Victor; … - 2006

This paper examines the methodological problems to define a modelling approach to assess the impact of full or limited bilateral liberalisation of agricultural trade flows in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The bilateral trade liberalisation process in the region is framed by complexity, in...

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EU Trade Policies: Benchmarking Protection in a General Equilibrium Framework

Antimiani, Alessandro; Salvatici, Luca - 2005

protection based on the applied tariffs faced by each exporter. In order to do this, an index of trade policy restrictiveness is … computed, using the Mercantilistic Trade Restrictiveness Index as the tariff aggregator. We also analyze the protection granted … to each sector by the existing tariff structure. In this report, we compute effective rates of protection that overcome …

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GROUNDNUT TRADE LIBERALIZATION: A SOUTH-SOUTH DEBATE?

Beghin, John C.; Diop, Ndiame; Matthey, Holger; … - 2003

We use a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market international model to analyze trade and agricultural policies affecting markets for peanut/groundnut products. The model covers four goods in thirteen countries/regions, including a large set of developing countries. Welfare is evaluated by looking...

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The Prophecies of the Naysayers - Assessing the Vision of the Protectionists in the U.S.-Canada Debate on Agricultural Reciprocity, 1846-1854

Kerr, William A.; Forgrave, Robert J. - 2003

Debates over proposals to liberalise international trade are often heated and acrimonious. They are often argued, in part, on the basis of projections of market conditions after the proposed liberalisation. These argument are often important in influencing trade policy decisions, yet their...

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Incentive Payment Programs for Environmental Protection: A Framework for Eliciting and Estimating Landowners' Willingness to Participate

Layton, David F.; Siikamaki, Juha - 2005

elicited enrollments are essentially integer valued. We apply these approaches to Finland, where the protection of private …

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How Cool is C.O.O.L.?

Dinopoulos, Elias; Livanis, Grigorios T.; West, Carol - 2005

caused by a reduction in protection is better than less trade. …

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Politicians: be killed or survive

Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2008

In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...

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