The general purpose of this paper is to consider some issues and constraints relating to the process of using ASA as an operational piece in the on-going policy decision making process of a developing countries host institution. We shall attempt to elaborate from our experience what some of the...

This paper focuses on the interdependence between international trade and in institutional reform, and suggests that the trade barriers erected by advanced countries to the agricultural exports from poor countries, and sub-Saharan agriculture in particular, are a barrier to economic growth and...

Second Annual Conference on Agricultural Policy and the Environment; Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by University of Minnesota, Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy; Agricultural Development Regional Agency (ESAV); University of Padova; Lake Itasca, Minnesota, September...

In this paper I advance a model in which institutional innovation is induced by changes in resource endowments, cultural endowments and technical change. I also introduce the role of advances in social science knowledge as a source of institutional innovation. The sources of institutional...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the welfare implications of stabilizing consumption and production and to compare it with the already-known welfare implications of stabilizing prices. Two sets of assumptions regarding supply behavior will be considered: (1) supply reacts...

Contents: Ten Years of Exchanges: University of Padova-Minnesota, by Ben Senauer; An Overview of the Report of the National Research Council's Committee on the Future of the Land Grant University Colleges of Agriculture, by G. Edward Schuh; Changes in U.S. Agricultural Research, Teaching, and...

This paper develops a model of traffic stops and subsequent searches in which police officers use information about the race of drivers to maximize a well defined objective. The model provides a behavioral foundation absent from Grogger and Ridgeway’s (2006) elegantly simple test and, by...