The third EC enlargement to include Spain and Portugal raised substantial problems in the international olive oil market, where the EC-10 accounted for 48 percent of production and 52 percent of consumption and the new EC members for 30 percent and 24 percent, respectively. Olive oil was highly...

International pollution poses special problems for economic analysis. National governments can, in principle, be successful in improving environmental quality when the sources of pollution are located within the government's jurisdiction. This is not possible, however, when pollution originates...

The objective of this paper is to disentangle the question of the influence of R&D investment on resource allocation efficiency and income distribution in Japanese agriculture during 1960-87. The average marginal product of R&D stock as estimated by the cost function approach is calculated to be...

This paper analyses the effects of a rebalancing policy for the EC feed sector on the less developed countries. The theoretical part of the study reveals that evaluation of changing world market prices from the developing countries' perspective depends on the trade position of the LDCs in the...

This paper clarifies linkages between food aid and food trade, both theoretically and empirically. A theoretical model first shows that domestic policy is crucial for the trade effects of food aid. Food trade may fall, remain constant, or even rise due to increased food aid. The important issue...

The world trade model used for this study suggests taht Japanese agricultural policies have substantially depressed world rice prices. The study also indicates that such policies have imposed considerable distrotions in Japan's domestic economy, costing consumers and taxpayers nearly $1.73 to...

This paper compares domestic dairy policies in the USA and EC and examines the impact of these policies on each dairy industry to explore domestic policy interdependence. The EC and USA have similar goals ofimproving farm income and use similar price support policies to achieve these goals....

The purpose of this paper is to measure the technical efficiency of farms on the basis of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and to present an analytical method of farm diagnosis using measurements obtained for melon farms in Japan. The paper first describes the objectives of melon farms operating...

The substantial investment in models of global food markets immediately prior to and during the Uruguay Round of international trade negotiations has been a mixed blessing so far as the prospects for reform are concerned. At worst, results from these models have misled the negotiations, first...

The paper questions why agricultural trade compromise between the USA and EC is so difficult, whether a compensatory scheme be found that is both politically feasible and resource saving, and whether liberalizing policies by selected OECD countries will ease a trade compromise. These questions...