Trade policy has been one of the most important issues in agricultural economics for more than 200 years. Our focus here is on evaluating relatively recent contributions to the understanding of agricultural trade policy and trade agreements. We present some background concerning trade policies...

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For quite some time long-only index funds have been suspected of being responsible for price increases in agricultural futures markets. This suspicion has prompted demands to drastically limit long-only index fundsʼ scope of activity. Such demands and their underlying diagnoses, however,...

Over the past decade, most OECD countries have begun to reform fundamentally their agricultural policies. Some dispute has emerged over the extent to which policy-making at the international level has triggered and shaped these reforms. These disputes raise important theoretical questions about...

Die EU hat 2004 den 1995 begonnenen Prozess der Aushandlung von Assoziationsabkommen mit den südlichen und östlichen Mittelmeeranrainerstaaten abgeschlossen. Die unter diesen wie auch den vorangegangenen Abkommen gewährten Agrarhandelspräferenzen werden in diesem Beitrag anhand der...