Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...