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GM Food Crop Technology: Implications For Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Jackson, Lee Ann - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties sought to increase farmer profitability through cost reductions or higher yields. The next generation of GM food research is focusing also on breeding for attributes of interest to consumers, beginning with ‘golden rice’, which...

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More Insiders, More Insider Trading: Evidence from Private Equity Buyouts

Acharya, Viral V; Johnson, Tim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

. They are unlikely to be consistent with models of optimal regulation. …

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Rackets, Regulation and the Rule of Law

Frye, Timothy; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Governments that levy predatory regulation and provide few weak legal institutions draw businesses into the unofficial …, we find that retail shops face very high levels of predatory regulation and have frequent contacts with private … protection rackets. In addition, we show that higher levels of regulation are associated with weaker legal institutions and a …

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Corporate Governance Externalities

Acharya, Viral V; Volpin, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We argue that the choice of corporate governance by a firm affects and is affected by the choice of governance by other firms. Firms with weaker governance give higher payoffs to their management to incentivize them. This forces firms with good governance to also pay their management more than...

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Regulatory Sanctions and Reputational Damage in Financial Markets

Armour, John; Mayer, Colin; Polo, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We study the impact of the announcement of enforcement of financial and securities regulation by the UK’s Financial …

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Developing Country Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda

Anderson, Kym; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in late 1999. To what extent should those negotiations include so-called "new trade agenda" items aimed at ensuring that domestic regulatory policies do not discriminate against...

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Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Revisited

Anderson, Kym; Kurzweil, Marianne; Martin, Will; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which agricultural producer and consumer incentives are distorted in national markets. As well, in developing...

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Income Related Loans for Drought Relief

Chapman, Bruce; Botterill, Linda; Egan, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

drought relief as a possible alternative to the existing interest rate subsidy scheme. The conceptual basis of income related …

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Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Anderson, Kym; Rausser, Gordon; Swinnen, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...

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Agricultural Price Distortions: Trends and Volatility, Past and Prospective

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Historically, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favouring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduced global economic welfare and...

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