Organizers: Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University) and Steven McCorriston (Exeter University)
Theme-Day Paper Presentations: "Food and Resources: Conflict and Trade"
Theme Day Organizers: Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University) and Steven McCorriston (Exeter University)
- The Economics of Civil War: Climate, Poverty and Trade
Edward Miguel (Univ of California, Berkeley) - Trade in the Shadow of Power
Stergios Skaperdas (Univ of California, Irvine) - Predation, Taxation, Investment and Conflict: International Evidence
Eli Berman (Univ of California, San Diego) - Commodity Price Shocks and Conflict
Samuel Bazzi (Boston University) - Conflict and Trade: Implications for Agriculture and Food Security
Anna D’Souza (City University of New York, Baruch College)
Non-Theme Day Paper Presentations
Non-Theme Day Organizer: Jonathan Coleman (US International Trade Commission)
Session 01 Impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on Global Agricultural Trade
- Examining the Impact of Non-Tariff Measures Applied on U.S. Exports of Beef to the European Union
Jayson Beckman, Shawn Arita, Lorraine Mitchell, and Mary Burfisher (ERS, USDA) - The Impact of an EU-US TTIP Agreement on Biofuel and Feedstock Markets
John Beghin (Iowa State University), Jean-Christophe Bureau (AgroParisTech), and Alex Gohin (INRA) - Latin American Agriculture in a World of Trade Agreements
Tim Josling (Stanford University), Mechel Paggi (Fresno State University), John Wainio (ERS, USDA), and Fumiko Yamazaki (Fresno State University) - Knocking on TTIP’s Door: the Agricultural and Food Issues Facing European Countries Excluded from the TTIP Negotiations
David Bullock (Univ of Illinois), Tim Josling (Stanford University), Stefan Mann (Swiss Federal Research Station Agroscope), and Klaus Mittenzwei (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural Economics Research)
Session 02 Public Policies and Market Dynamics in Africa
- Assessing Buffer Stock Impact on Producers and Consumers: The Case of Maize and Rice in Ghana
Federica Angelucci, Guillaume Pierre, Megan Witwer (FAO) - Can Budget Support to the Cotton Sector be Used More Efficiently? An Assessment of the Policy Support Measures in Mali and Burkina Faso
Hélène Gourichon (FAO), Bouréma Koné (Institut d’Economie Rurale, Mali), Barthélemy Lanos and Alban Mas Aparisi (FAO) - Structure and Performance of Ethiopia’s Coffee Export Sector
Bart Minten, Seneshaw Tamru, Tadesse Kuma, and Yaw Nyarko (IFPRI) - Grain Stock Management in the Context of Liberalized Agricultural Trade: Recent Country Experiences and Emerging Trends in Africa
Mulat Demeke, Areej Jafari, Eugenia Stefanelli, and Stefania Croce (FAO)
Session 03: The 2014 Farm Bill: Implications for U.S. Trade Relations
- Assessing the Political Economy of the 2014 U.S. Farm Bill
David Orden (Virginia Tech) and Carl Zulauf (Ohio University) - If the WTO Agriculture Modalities Were Rules and Commitments Today: Whom Would They Bite Where?
Lars Brink (Independent Advisor) - The Potential Budgetary Costs and WTO Implications of the New Farm Bill
Joseph Glauber (USDA, Office of the Chief Economist) and Pat Westhoff (FAPRI, Univ of Missouri) - New Wine in Old Bottles and Old Wine in New Bottles: Crop Insurance Programs in the 2014 Farm Bill and their WTO Implications
Vincent Smith (Montana State University), Barry Goodwin, and William Neal Reynolds (North Carolina State University)
Session 04: Food Safety Regulations and Trade
- Technical Barriers to Trade: Effect on Revenue and Surplus
Lia Nogueira (Univ of Nebraska), Hayley Chouinard (Washington State University), Thomas Marsh (Washington State University), and Christine Wieck (Univ of Bonn) - Food Safety as a Trade Regulation. A View from México
Belem Avendaño Ruiz (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México) - Evaluating the Stringency of Maximum Residue Limits for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
Everett Peterson, Jason Grant, Mina Hejazi (Virginia Tech) and Kurt Klein (University of Lethbridge) - Prospects of Regulatory Cooperation on Agri-food Standards between EU and U.S.: A Discussion of Potential Cost, Benefits and Consequences of Different Cooperation Strategies
Christine Wieck (Univ Bonn) and Bettina Rudloff (German Institute for Int’l and Security Affairs) - Options for Canada’s Dairy Sector: The Potential For Exports
Rick Barichello, Michael Grant, Mark Liew (Univ of British Columbia)
Session 05: Food Security and Development Assistance
- The Effects of Aid Agency Independence on Aid Allocation Decisions
Ryan Cardwell and Pascal Ghazalian (Univ of Manitoba) - Replicating Missing Markets: Rebuilding Ashraf et al. (2009) Brick by Brick
Benjamin Wood (Int’l Initiative for Impact Evaluation) and Michell Dong (World Bank) - Who Will Feed China in the 21s tCentury?
Will Martin and Emiko Fukase (The World Bank)
Session 06: Selected Dissertation Reports
- The Impact of NAFTA on the Sugar Markets in Mexico and the United States
Karen Lewis (Univ of Tennessee) (Advisor: Troy Schmitz, Arizona State University) - U.S. Tariff Reductions and the Margins of Trade: A Case Study of U.S. Agri-food Imports
Mina Hejazi (Virginia Tech) (Co-Advisors: Jason Grant and Everett Peterson, Virginia Tech)
Session 07: Effect of Non-Tariff Measures on Trade
- A Consistent Food Demand Framework for International Food Security Assessment
John Beghin (Iowa State University), Birgit Meade, and Stacey Rosen (ERS, USDA) - Russia’s Food Imports After the Ban: Trade Diversion Effects
Ekaterina Krivonos (FAO) - Poverty and Income Distribution Implications of Philippine Rice Policies
Caesar Cororaton (Virginia Tech) - Farm Household Type and Adjustment Pattern in Korea
Eun-young Bae and Hanho Kim (Seoul National University)
Session 08: Technology, Productivity, and Agricultural Trade
- Agricultural Trade Patterns under Heterogeneous Productivity, Endowments and Policies
Kari Heerman and Stephanie Riche (ERS, USDA) - Efficiency, Technical and Productivity Change in Brazilian Agriculture: Regional Analysis
Saleem Shaik (Univ. of North Dakota), Silvia Miranda (Univ of São Paulo), Dragan Milijkovic (Univ. of North Dakota) - Global Land Use Effects of Technological Progress in Agriculture
Nelson Villoria and Thomas Hertel (Purdue University) - Do Multinational Retailers Affect the Export Competitiveness of their Host Countries?
Angela Cheptea (INRA, France and IAW, Tuebingen, Germany)
Session 09: Price Analysis in Global Commodity Markets
- Analyzing Developing Country Market Integration with Incomplete Price Data Using Cluster Analysis
Isaac Gershon Ansah (Univ for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana), Cornelis Gardebroek (Wageningen University), Rico Ihle (Wageningen University), and Moti Jaleta (CIMMYT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) - Grain Stock Management in the Context of Liberalized Agricultural Markets and Trade: Recent Country Experiences and Emerging Evidences
David Dawe, Cristian Morales-Opazo, Jean Balié, and Guillaume Pierre (FAO) - Modeling the Global Wheat Market Using a GVAR Model
Elselien Breman and Cornelis Gardebroek (Wageningen University) - The Effect of Rice Policy on Price Volatility under Climate Change
Katherine Baldwin (US Int’l Trade Commission), Alvaro Durand-Morat (Univ of Arkansas), Alan Fox (US Int’l Trade Commission), and Eric Wailes (Univ of Arkansas)
Session 10: Analytical Dimensions of Trade Modeling
- Preference Incompleteness and the Gains from Trade
Robert Chambers (Univ of Maryland) and Tigran Melkonyan (University of Warwick, UK) - Identifying Competition in Export Markets: A Similarity Index Approach
Sean Cahill (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) - Volatility and Dynamics in Agricultural and Trade Policy Impact Assessment – Modelling Advances Needed
Thomas Heckelei (University of Bonn) - Foreign Direct Investment and Trade in Agriculture and Natural Resources
Margherita Scoppola (Univ of Macerata, Italy)
Session 11: Greenhouse Gas Policy and Trade
- Policies for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in European Agriculture and International Trade
David Blandford (Penn State), Ivar Gaasland (Univ of Bergen), Katharina Hassapoyannes (formerly European Parliament) and Erling Vårdal (Univ of Bergen) - The RFS Going Forward: The Effects of Alternative Methods to Determine Renewable Fuel Volume Requirements
Jarrett Whistance, Seth Meyer, and Wyatt Thompson (FAPRI, Univ of Missouri) - Interactions of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard and the National Renewable Fuel Standard
Jarrett Whistance, Seth Meyer, and Wyatt Thompson (FAPRI, Univ of Missouri)
Session 12: Trade Effects of Regional Trade Agreements
- Tariffs and STEs in ASEAN Rice Trade: Impacts of Removing Trade Barriers Using a Partial Equilibrium Approach
Hoa Hoang and William Meyers ( Univ of Missouri) - Trade Liberalization, Selection, and Productivity in a Supply Managed Economy
Alex Chernoff (Queen’s University, Canada) - Political Economic Effects on the Philippines of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Caesar Cororaton and David Orden (Virginia Tech) - Agriculture in the Canada-EU Trade Agreement
William Kerr and Jill Hobbs (Univ of Saskatchewan)
Session 13: Effects of Commodity Taxes and Special Safeguards
- The Economics of Duty and Excise Tax Drawbacks for Wine
Georgi Gabrielyan and Daniel Sumner (Univ of California, Davis) - The Feasibility of Taxing Global Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption
Andrew Muhammad, Kari Heerman (ERS, USDA), and Dariush Mozaffarian (Tufts University) - An Evaluation of the Use of Special Safeguard Tariffs (SSG) for Sugar and the Impacts on the Brazilian Economy
Cinthia Cabral da Costa (EMBRAPA, Brazil), Heloisa Burnquist, Joaquim Guilhoto (Univ of São Paulo) - China’s Urban Alcoholic Beverage Consumption: Regional Differences
Xaiotian Wu, Thomas Wahl, (North Dakota University), James Seale, Jr. (Univ of Florida), and Junfei Bai (China Agricultural University)
Session 14: Global Value Chains in Agriculture
- Trade in Value Added Statistics for Agricultural and Food Products
Pete Liapis (OECD) and Marinos Tsigas (U.S. International Trade Commission) - Public and Private Standards for Food Safety and Quality in Global Value Chains
Jill Hobbs (Univ of Saskatchewan) - Trade in Value Added and CO2 Emissions
Alan Fox (U.S. International Trade Commission) - Supply Response Along the Value Chain in Selected SSA Countries: The Case of Grains
Emiliano Magrini, Cristian Morales-Opazo, and Jean Balié (FAO)