The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) was a key issue in the July 2008 failure to reach agreement in the WTO negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. It includes both price (P-SSM) and quantity-triggered measures (Q-SSM). This paper uses a stochastic simulation model of the world wheat...

The implementation of the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) has expanded trade opportunities for U.S. agricultural producers. U.S. beef is an important product affected by the agreement, and the United States Meat Export Federation (USMEF) invested in a new...

Technical trade barriers (TBTs) have become increasingly important barriers to trade. In agricultural trade, they are often implemented as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures. Karnal bunt, a fungal disease of wheat, is one example where these types of measures have been implemented. The...

This research offers an empirical analysis of the economic effects on Morocco from implementing a Free Trade Area (FTA) with the European Union (EU) signed in 1996. Since the FTA translates largely into unilateral discriminatory tariff elimination against EU imports, there are concerns about the...

The European Union (EU) is perhaps the only regional integration scheme that has remained viable and grown successfully over the years. The proposed accession of the ten Central and East European Countries (CEECs) to the fifteen-nation EU (EU-15), to form a twenty-five nation customs union, has...

The study used a modified version of an applied general equilibrium model and database, GTAP, to generate comparative static projections about the future patterns of production, consumption, trade and agricultural protection, focusing on the SEA-4 countries. Exogenous regional macroeconomic...

The path to Turkey-EU integration has not been a straightforward one. It has historical, cultural and political as well as economic dimensions. Within this wide spectrum, the purpose of this thesis is to analyze the implications of integrating Turkey's agricultural sector with that of the EU. As...

This thesis builds on the GTAP-Dyn (Ianchovichina and McDougall, 2001) dynamic general equilibrium (GE) model of the global economy. It presents model modifications and estimates of key economic relationships in order to improve the quality of the long run projections with the GTAP-Dyn model for...

This thesis analyzes some of the fundamental, direct consequences of the East Asian meltdown for the global economy--and specifically for the North American food and agricultural producers. To study the impact of this economic crisis, the study develops a novel dynamic global general equilibrium...

There is abundant literature analyzing the effects of policy changes on poverty and the poor, the majority of whom are concentrated in rural areas and employed in agricultural activities. However this literature remains mute on whether or not the policy impacts on poverty are likely to be...