Organizers: Jo Swinnen and Thomas Heckelei
“Private Standards and Non-Tariff Barriers: Measurement, Impacts and Legal Issues”
December 13-15, 2009
Fort Myers, Florida
Organizers: Jo Swinnen (Katholieke Universiteit-Leuven) and Thomas Heckelei (University of Bonn)
Special Issue of World Trade Review (pdf)
Private Standards and Non-Tariff Barriers: Measurement, Impacts and Legal Issues
- Gravity, Trade Integration and Heterogeneity Across Industries (pdf)
Natalie Chen - Measuring Costs and Benefits of Non-Tariff Measures in Agri-Food (pdf)
Frank van Tongeren - A Data and Research Initiative on Non-Tariff Measures by the OECD (pdf)
Frank van Tongeren - Public and Private Standards, Global Supply Chains and Development (pdf)
Miet Maertens - Food Standards and International Trade (pdf)
Ian Sheldon - WTO Dispute Settlement Processes in the Area of NTMs and Private Standards: Issues and Experiences
Lee Ann Jackson
Institutions and Policies to Manage Global Market Risks and Price Spikes in Basic Food Commodities
- Managing Volatility – the Experience in the U.S. (pdf)
Joe Glauber - Food Commodities and Price Spike Risks: Assessing the Causes, Identifying the Responses (pdf)
Tassos Haniotis - Hedging Cereal Import Price Risks and Institutions to Assure Import Supplies (pdf)
Alexander Sarris - Global Commodity Market Risks and Their Management (pdf)
Brian Wright
Public Support for Agriculture: Measurement and Impacts
- Negative Elements in the Aggregate Measurement of Support: Meaning and Consequences (pdf)
Lars Brink - The Law of One Price, Structural Change and Agricultural Market Integration in the European Union: A Multi-Market Approach
J. Stephen Clark, Lubos Smutka, Mansoor Maitah, Petr Prochazka, and Shelley J. Thompson - The Impact of Trade Barriers on Mandated Biofuel Consumption in Canada
Danny Le Roy, Amani E. Elobeid, and Kurt Klein
Modeling Issues and Empirical Studies
- Calibrating Mathematical Programming Spatial Models (pdf)
Giovanni Anania, Sophie Drogué and Quirino Paris - Non Tariff Measures: A “Quantum of Solace” for Trade Protectionists? (pdf)
Martin Banse, Tanja Befus, Martina Brockmeier and Janine Pelikan - When Trade Costs are Not ad valorem: What does the Gravity Model Really Measure? (pdf)
Angela Cheptea and Alexandre Gohin - Impacts of Stockholdings Behaviours on Agricultural Market Volatility: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Approach (pdf)
Fabienne Féménia - Modeling the Trade Effects of Retailer-Led Proprietary Standards (pdf)
Maury Bredahl - When Certification Progams to Ensure Compliance with Foreign Stantards Enhance Trade: The Case of Brazil Beef Exports (pdf)
Marinos Tsigas, Constanza Valdés and Jesse Mora - Private Requirements by European Retailers: Impact on French Agri-Food Exporters (pdf)
Karine Latouche and Emmanuelle Chevassus-Lozza
Food Safety, Disease Outbreaks and Trade: Understanding Impacts of SPS Measures in the Meat Sector
- Regulatory SPS Instruments in Meat Trade (pdf)
Simon W. Schlueter and Christine Wieck - Analysis of the Effects of EU 27 Avian Influenza Outbreak on Its Meat and Poultry Imports
Fawzi A. Taha and William Hahn - Korea-Canada FTA Negotiations and the Korea-Canada Beef Problem (pdf)
Richard Barichello
Measuring Market Impacts of SPS Measures
- An Empirical Assessment of SPS Regulations on U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Imports (pdf)
Vuko Karov , Jason Grant, Everett Peterson and Donna Roberts - The Trade Diversion Effects of Food Import Refusals: Are We Exporting Our Food Safety Issues? (pdf)
Kathy Baylis, Lia Nogueira, and Kathryn Pace - Are Food Safety Standards Weighing Exports Down? A Theoretically-Consistent Gravity Model Approach on Seafood Exports to the EU, Japan and US (pdf)
Anh Van Nguyen and Norbert Wilson
Country-Level Analyses: Poverty Dynamics, Preferences and Biofuels
- Trade Liberalization and Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam 2002-2006 (pdf)
Barbara Coello, Madior Fall, and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann - Poverty Implications in Pakistan of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Price Distortions (pdf)
Caesar B. Cororaton and David Orden - Rental and Land Rental Market: Agricultural Taxation Relief and Subsidization (pdf)
Chao Peng, Barrett Kirwan and Xiangzhi Kong
Technology, Productivity Growth and Prices
- EU Harmonization of Regulations, Competition and Firm-Level Productivity Growth in the Dutch Food Industry (pdf)
Mark Vancauteren and Bruno Henry de Frahan - A New Measure of the Producer Welfare Effects of Technological Change (pdf)
David Bullock, Dimitrios Dadakas and Stelios Katranidis
WTO Disciplines on Domestic Support and Market Access
- Brazil’s WTO Challenge Against U.S. Cotton and Export Credit Programs (pdf)
Carol Goodloe - Understanding International Disciplines on Agricultural Domestic Support (pdf)
David Orden, Tim Josling, and David Blandford - How Effective are WTO Disciplines on Domestic Support and Market Access for Agriculture? (pdf)
David Blandford, Ivar Gaasland, Roberto Garcia and Erling Vårdal
Institutions, Market Concentration, and Trade Patterns
- Agricultural Trade and the GATT/WTO: Does Membership Make a Difference? (pdf)
Jason Grant and Kathryn Boys - The Benefits of Biofuels: Is Science Mandated? (pdf)
Jean-Christophe Bureau, Anne-Célia Disdier, Violette Porcher and David Tréguer - Do Food Scares Explain Supplier Concentration? An Analysis of EU Agri-food Imports (pdf)
Mélise Jaud, Olivier Cadot and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
Country Analyses – Focus on China
- Effects of Information and Country of Origin on Chinese Consumer Preferences for Wine: An Experimental Approach in the Field (pdf)
Hainan Wang and Jill McCluskey - A World Factory in Global Production Chains: Estimating Imported Value Added in Chinese Exports (pdf)
Bob Koopman, Wang Zhi and Shang-Jin Wei - Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Surge in FDI in China
Titus O.Awokuse
Research Results from the Hewlett/IATRC Capacity Building Program
- Distortions to Incentives to Production of Major Crops in Pakistan: 1991-2008
Abdul Salam - A Linkage Between Tariffs & Administration Methods Under Tariff-rate Quota System
Song-Soo Lim - The Export-Production Decision of Chilean Farmers: The Case of Blueberry Producers
Rodrigo Echeverría, Munisamy Gopinath,Victor Moreira and Pedro Cortés - Poverty Impacts of Trade Integration with the EU: Lessons for Ecuador
Sara Wong, and Veronika Kulmer
Dissertation Reports
- A Tariff Equivalent of Non-Tariff Barriers on European Horticultural and Fish Imports from African Countries (pdf)
Nicodème Nimenya, Bruno Henry de Frahan, and Pascal-Firmin Ndimira - Dynamic Analysis of the Constraints to Growth: The Case of Brazil (pdf)
Cristina Vinyes
Priorities for Research in Agricultural Trade: Perspectives from Granting Agencies
- ERS and Research Priorities (pdf)
Danny Pick - NIFA Research Priorities (pdf)
Deborah Sheely