international trade in farm goods. They come from two studies with differing methodologies and data sources, and each provides less …

This paper explores the implications for trade relations of the greening of world politics. It modifies the standard … theory of changing comparative advantages in a growing world economy to show the effects on trade of taking into account the … policies would not be a problem if they were confined to first-best policies. Trade problems arise, however, when those …

Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) in the World Trade Organization. It draws on political economy and market theory to demonstrate that … international prices, it underscores the importance of strengthening multilateral disciplines on both import and export trade … interventions to reduce beggar-thy-neighbor unilateral trade policy responses to food price fluctuations. …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … on average in stabilizing domestic prices while increasing the volatility of the income transfers from terms-of-trade …