Agricultural trade protection has been common in most industrialized nations for the last decades. While economic inefficiency of trade protection policy has been argued, the assertion may not hold if institutions functioning in economic equilibrium are appropriately recognized. Becker proposes...

Complications arise in the estimation of welfare changes in vertically and horizontally linked markets when technology affects production. Past research has dealt with these complications using single-equation models and dual approaches. We briefly discuss some of the limitations of these...

This paper proposes an analytical framework to examine the market and welfare impacts of GMOs, when some consumers refuse genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and when two supply channels are segregated (one for goods that containing GMOs and one for non-genetically-modified identity-preserved...

It is well recognized that the statistical reliability of the conventional method of estimating the effects of technological change on producer welfare is often quite poor. I present a method that enhances the statistical reliability of such estimates. I emphasize that when measuring the welfare...

Climate change, the agri-food sector and trade are closely related. This contribution aims at present issues related to the economic impacts of climate changes on international trade. The agri-food sector is one of the most hit by changes in climate, and it is also responsible of substantial...

The goal of this study is twofold: to determine if in the long run health concerns affect, via changes in consumer dietary preferences, the retail demand for beef in the United States and to establish if media coverage of popular diets (media frenzy) causes the change in retail demand for beef,...

Cointegration of Canadian and U.S. livestock prices points to the existence of market integration in the period 1996:1 to 2004:12 even though the trade flows of livestock and beef products were non-existent for many months in 2003 and 2004 (suggesting market segmentation) due to livestock/beef...

Cointegration of Canadian and U.S. livestock prices points to the existence of market integration in the period 1996:1 to 2004:12 even though the trade flows of livestock and beef products were non-existent for many months in 2003 and 2004 (suggesting market segmentation) due to livestock/beef...

Table of Contents: (1) Young, Linda: "Introduction: Capacity Building and Agricultural Trade Policy Challenges in Developing Countries," pp. 171-174; (2) Young, Linda M. "Capacity Building Programs in Agricultural Trade Policy," pp. 175-184; (3) Salam, Abdul: "Distortions in Incentives to Production...

This study was conducted to analyze the direct and indirect effects of ethanol policy on livestock production. Results of the theoretical model indicate the possibility of ethanol policy indirectly affecting livestock production. Econometric results show a possibility of ethanol policy...