agricultural and food markets. Empirical analysis aimed at monitoring distortions to agricultural incentives thus need to examine … restrictions plus domestic taxes or subsidies on farm outputs or inputs and consumer subsidies for food staples. This paper …

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of …

governments to insulate their domestic food market from fluctuations in international prices has not waned. Such insulation … contributes to the amplification of international food price fluctuations, yet it does little to advance national food security … when food-importing and food-exporting countries equally engage in insulating behaviour. Thus there is still much scope to …

affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated …

This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade … in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes—reductions in import protection or increases in … trade when international food prices spike. …