This dissertation develops a cost benefit framework that explains firms' international entry decisions, accounting for consumer demand for differentiated products, competitors' strategies and distributors' market power. It is used to explain the economics of observed entry patterns of Spanish...

Unilateral trade reforms and establishment of Mercosur led to increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) into Argentina. These inflows financed acquisition of new capital and/or renovation of existing plants, resulting in significant expansion in Argentina's capital stock and more rapid economic...

Cocoa is a classic Third World cash crop. It is produced mostly by small, poor farmers in Africa, while its products - chocolate and sun tan oil - are consumed by rich consumers in North America and Europe. A few West African economies are highly dependent on foreign exchange earned from cocoa...

"Bilateral donations of food aid have been criticized for not responding to the need in recipient countries. U.S. food aid programs have attempted to meet humanitarian objectives while providing limited support to domestic agricultural producers and developing overseas markets, so food aid is...

Tariff rate quota administration and implementation are empirically evaluated for the fourteen developing countries notifying the WTO of the use of TRQs. FAO trade data, UNCTAD data on applied tariffs and the WTO notifications permit us to assess underfill of quotas, discrimination among...

We estimate a simultaneous equations model of Chinese markets for wheat, rice, corn, pork, and poultry. Elasticities for consumption, feed demand, production, stocks demand, and foreign trade fall within the range of results from previous studies, and are reasonable magnitudes. China has market...

Tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) were one of the policy instruments enshrined in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, intended to improve market access for politically sensitive commodities and sometimes to continue managed trade regimes. This paper examines country and commodity coverage,...

Replaced with revised version of paper 08/01/08.