Organizers: John Wainio (ERS, USDA), Jason Grant (Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ), and Tassos Haniotis (European Commission) Non-Theme Day Organizer: Danny Pick (ERS, USDA)
“New Rules of Trade?”
December 9-11, 2012
San Diego, California
Theme-Day Paper Presentations: “New Rules of Trade?”
Theme Day Organizers: John Wainio (ERS, USDA), Jason Grant (Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ), and Tassos Haniotis (European Commission)
- What Does Globalization Mean for the WTO? A View from Economics
Robert W. Staiger (Univ of Wisconsin) - The Evolving Role of Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO in Today’s Trading Environment
Rohini Acharya (World Trade Organization) - Trade Agreements, WTO Rules, and Food Security
Alan Matthews (Trinity College Dublin) - The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Asia-Pacific Integration
Peter A. Petri (Brandeis Univ and Peterson Institute for International Economics) - The Impact of Regional Trade Agreements on Agricultural Trade
Jean-Christophe Bureau (Institut National de Recherche Agronomique)
Non-Theme Day Paper Presentations
Non-Theme Day Organizer: Danny Pick (ERS, USDA)
Price Volatility in Agricultural Markets
- Global Exposure: Food Price Spike Effects on Ethiopian Farm Households
Sara Savastano (Univ of Rome Tor Vergata), Robert Weaver (Pennsylvania State Univ), Adriana Paolantonio (Univ of Rome Tor Vergata) - Co-Movement of Price Volatility Among Major Crops
Cornelis Gardebroek (Wageningen Univ), Manuel Hernandez, and Miguel Robles (IFPRI) - Volatility Spillovers between Agricultural Commodity and Financial Asset Markets
Stephanie Grosche (Univ of Bonn)
Globalization, Consumer Preferences and Trade
- The Impact of Globalization on Obesity Epidemic in Brazil
Dragan Miljkovic (North Dakota State Univ), Silvia Miranda, and Anna Kassouf (Univ of São Paulo) - Consumer Preferences for Sweeteners Across Cultures
Lilian Carrillo-Rodriguez, and Jill McCluskey (Washington State Univ) - Meat Demand Analysis in Urban China: To Include or Not to Include Meat Away from Home?
Junfei Bai (Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, CAS), Thomas Wahl (North Dakota State Univ), James Seale, Jr. (Univ of Florida)
Estimating Trade Models in Agriculture
- Estimating Import Demand in the Presence of Seasonal Trade and Unobserved Prices
Andrew Muhammad (ERS, USDA) - Structural Gravity Estimation and Agriculture
Sören Prehn (Leibniz Institute – IAMO), Bernhard Brummer (Georg August Univ Gottingen), Thomas Glauben (Leibniz Institute – IAMO) - Decomposing the Growth of Agricultural Trade along the Intensive and Extensive Margins
Shuwen Duan, and Jason Grant (Virginia Tech)
Selected Dissertation Reports
- Up in Smoke? Agricultural Commercialization, Rising Food Prices and Stunting in Malawi
Benjamin Wood (Univ of Illinois). Nominated by: Lia Nogueira-Rodriguez (Univ of Kentucky) - Estimating Gravity Equation Models in the Presence of Sample Selection and Heteroskedasticity
Bo Xiong (Iowa State Univ, currently at UC Davis). Nominated by: John Beghin (Iowa State Univ)
Standards and NTBs in Developing Countries
- Impact of BRICS Standards on Developing Countries’ Exports
Esteban Ferro (World Bank), Tsunehiro Otsuki (Osaka Univ), John Wilson (World Bank) - Do Private Standards Create Exclusive Food Supply Chains? New Evidence from the Peruvian Asparagus Export Sector
Monica Schuster, and Miet Maertens (KU Leuven) - Feeding the Dragon and the Elephant: A Comparison of Trade Distortions on U.S. Agricultural Exports in China and India
Katherine Baldwin, and Joanna Bonarriva (USITC) - Potential Implications of MERCOSUR Obtaining “Foot and Mouth Disease-Free” Status
Pierre Charlebois, Carole Gendron and Paul Lirette (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Regionalism, Competition Trade Policy and Food Assistance
- Has the Latest Wave of Regionalism Diminished the Value of Preferential Margins? Evidence from North America Agricultural Exports
Jason Grant (Virginia Tech), Kurt Klein (Univ of Lethbridge) - Tax and Quota Policies for Restricting Agricultural Exports that are Less Market-Distorting
William Liefert, Paul Westcott, and John Wainio (ERS, USDA) - Revealed Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness of Canadian Agriculture: A Case Study of Wheat, Beef and Pork Sectors
Rakhal Sarker, and Shashini Ratnasena (Univ of Guelph) - Price Effects and Substitutability of Food Assistance Commodities
Ryan Cardwell (Univ of Manitoba)
Trade Models, Risks, and Non-Tariff Measures
- Multinational Retailers and Home Country Exports
Angela Cheptea (Institut National de Recherche Agronomique), Charlotte Emlinger (Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Int’l), Karine Latouche (Institut National de Recherche Agronomique) - An Extended Viner Model: Trade Creation, Diversion and Reduction
Sören Prehn (Leibniz Institute – IAMO), Bernhard Brummer (Georg August Univ Gottingen), Thomas Glauben ((Leibniz Institute – IAMO) - Using Economic Variables to Identify Adulteration in Food Imports: Application to US Seafood Imports
Sébastien Pouliot (Iowa State Univ) - Trade Restrictiveness Index in Presence of Externalities: An Application to Non-Tariff Measures
John Beghin (Iowa State Univ), Anne-Celia Disdier (Paris School of Economics), Stephan Marette (Agro Paris Tech)
A PSE Database for Latin America: A Progress Report
- A PSE Database for Latin America: A Progress Report
Tim Josling (Stanford University)
Subsidized Crop and Revenue Insurance: Implications for Agriculture in the WTO
- The Treatment of Crop Insurance under the WTO
Joseph Glauber and Carol Goodlow (Office of Chief Economist, USDA) - Agricultural Insurance Subsidies: What Should Count and What Shouldn’t
Vincent Smith (Montana State University) - Production Distortions and Implications for U.S. Row Crop Acreage and Price
Nicholas Piggott (North Carolina State University) - Production Distortions and Implications for the Design and Delivery of Crop Insurance Subsidies
Barry Goodwin (North Carolina State University)
Non Tariff Measures with Market Imperfections: Trade and Welfare Implications
- Overview – Non-Tariff Measures with Market Imperfections: Trade and Welfare Implications
John Beghin (Iowa State Univ) - Choosing the Best Model in the Presence of Zero Trade: A Fish Product Analysis
Nhuong Tran (World Fish Center), Norbert Wilson, and Diane Hite (Auburn Univ) - Role of EU Harmonization in Explaining the Export-Productivity Premium of Food Processing Firms
Mark Vancauteren (Hasselt Univ and Statistics Netherlands) - Private Food Standards and Firm-Level Trade Effects: The Peruvian Asparagus Case
Monica Schuster, and Miet Maertens (KU Leuven) - Stringent Maximum Residue Limits, Protectionism, and Competitiveness: The Cases of the US and Canada
Bo Xiong (Univ of California, Davis), John Beghin (Iowa State Univ) - The Participation of Smallholder Farmers in High-Value Export Markets Governed by Standards: The Role of Exporter Procurement Practices
Spencer Henson (Univ of Guelph), Steven Jaffe (World Bank), Oliver Masakure (Wilfred Laurier Univ)
Trade Effects of Regional Trade Agreements
- Policy Risk in Quotas: ITQs and Fisheries Management
Rick Barichello and Adam Soliman (Univ of British Columbia) - Taking Stock of Export Restrictions on Agricultural Products: Preliminary Analysis of OECD Database
Pete Liapis (OECD) - Trade Competitions between China and other Top Exporting Partners in the ASEAN Agro-Food Market
Tin Tin Aung (Ministry of Agriculture, Mynmar), Hanho Kim (Seoul National Univ) - The EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement: What Will it Mean for Agriculture in NAFTA?
William Kerr, and Jill Hobbs (Univ of Saskatchewan)
Policy in Agriculture and Food Markets
- Value of Production in Agriculture: Meaning, Measurement, and Implications in a WTO Context
Lars Brink (Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network) - Does the EU Green Box Distort Trade? An Empirical Analysis using the CAPRI-Model
Klaus Mittenzwei (Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Inst), Wolfgang Britz, and Christine Wieck (Univ of Bonn) - Something Fishy: The Use of Tariff vs Non-Tariff Barriers in Seafood Trade
Kathy Baylis, and Daniel Dias (Univ of Illinois), Lia Nogueira-Rodriguez (Univ of Kentucky) - The Trade Implications of ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policies in Food Markets
Jill Hobbs, William Kerr, and Stuart Smyth (Univ of Saskatchewan)
Political Economy and Trade
- Do Those Govern Worst Govern Least?
David Bullock (Univ of Illinois), Flordeliza Bordey (Philippine Rice Research Inst), William Bowser (Univ of Illinois), Eeshani Kandpal (World Bank), Benjamin Wood (Univ of Illinois) - Trade Implications of Renewable Fuel Standard Waivers
Jarrett Whistance, and Wyatt Thompson (Univ of Missouri) - Political Competition and Policy Choices: The Evidence from Agricultural Protection
Jan Falkowski (Univ of Warsaw), Alessandro Olper (Univ of Milano) - Canadian Bilateral Trade Agreements: Drivers, Constraints and Pressures
Maury Bredahl, and Amber Naiman (Univ of Guelph)
Quality, Food Standards, and Competitiveness: Theory and New Evidence
- Reputation Tapping
Bradley Rickard (Cornell Univ), Jill McCluskey (Washington State Univ), Richard Patterson (Cornell Univ) - Quality Upgrading and Food Standards: Evidence from the EU Market
Alessandro Olper, Daniele Curzi, and Valentina Raimondi (Univ of Milano) - Private Food Standards and Trade: Export Market Entry and Exit Dynamics
Monica Schuster, and Miet Maertens (KU Leuven)
Integration of the Emerging Export Countries of Europe and Central Asia in World Grain Markets
- Export Restrictions and Multiple Spatial Price Equilibria When International Prices Spike: The Export Quota for Wheat in Ukraine
Linde Götz (Leibniz Institute – IAMO), Feng Qiu (Univ of Alberta), Jean-Philippe Gervais (North Carolina State Univ), Thomas Glauben (Leibniz Institute – IAMO) - Export Restrictions on Wheat Markets in Serbia During Global Commodity Price Peaks – Did Consumers Really Benefit?
Ivan Djuric, Linde Götz and Thomas Glauben (Leibniz Institute – IAMO) - Black Sea and World Wheat Market Price Integration Analysis
Kateryna Goychuk and William Meyers (Univ of Missouri)