Ongoing bilateral trade negotiations between the Mercosur group and the EU since 2000 onagricultural products served as incitement to analyse the impacts of possible outcomes. The objectiveof this paper is to quantitatively assess impacts of bilateral liberalisation scenarios on EU25 andMercosur...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is knownas a very relevant driver of economic growth and hasfound increased attention in recent trade research.Existing theories differ, however, in their conclusionregarding the relation between trade in goods and FDI:they appear to be either complements or...

The future EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) requires coherence with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the international commitments in the fight against climate change. Next to ensuring stable food supply by supporting farmers and enhancing agricultural productivity, environmental...

Technological change co‐determines agri‐environmental performance and farm structural transformation. Meaningful impact assessment of related policies can be derived from farm‐level models that are rich in technology details and environmental indicators, integrated with agent‐based...

Aspirations have been shown to affect households' decisions around productive investments, but little work explores how aspirations are formed or eroded, especially in the face of ecological threats. While ecological threats may erode social and economic capital, there is no consensus on their...

Recent trade disruptions and their consequences on supply chains show the importance of stable trade relations for exporters' economic planning and importers' supply security. Both instability in trading partners' economic and institutional environment and differences between them are likely to...

This paper analyses relevant determinants for the probability to initiate a dispute on policy measures under the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system. The empirical analysis focuses on agro-food-related disputes to provide sector-specific information on the driving factors in...

Revised version of paper added to AgEcon Search 03/02/2010