DISCUSSANT'S COMMENTS FOR AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, SELECTED PAPERS SESSION SP-10R, "TRADE AND MACRO POLICY IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT"

The implications of markets, government policies and macroeconomic events,on the agricultural sector are discussed in these papers. The Implications of an Export Tax on Sectoral Growth: A Case in Pakistan Darren Hudson, Mississippi State University and Don Ethridge, Texas Tech University. Economic Boom, Financial Bust, and the Fate of Thai Agriculture: Was Growth in the 1990s Too Fast? Ian Coxhead, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bringing Spatial Relationships Back in to Market Integration Studies: A Multivariate Approach for the Brazilian Rice Market Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera and Steven Helfand. A Dynamic Model of the Food Processing Sector in the New Market Economies of Central Europe Robert Lyons, Rachael Goodhue, Gordon Rausser, and Leo Simon, University of California-Berkeley. Trade Implications of Timber Certification in the European Union Jennifer Stevens and Marinas Tsigas.