Farmers engaging in irrigated agriculture are subject to externalities stemming from their neighbours’ operational decisions on water use. Because of the nature of water flow, these externalities are more evident between neighbours in an upstream–downstream relationship rather than in...

Agricultural water trade has been adopted in many countries as a measure to overcome water deficiency facing irrigated regions. When correctly applied, the system can allocate more water to more productive farmers, thereby improving efficiency in resource utilisation. Despite this enormous...

The scope of recent regional trade agreements (RTAs) has become much broader than before by the inclusion of nonconventional provisions such as those on competition policy and intellectual property rights protection. This paper empirically examines the extent to which those nonconventional...