Organizers: Barry Goodwin, North Carolina State University; Steven Zahniser, ERS, USDA; and Marinos Tsigas, US International Trade Commission
Theme-Day Paper Presentations: “Employment, Immigration, and Trade”
Trade, Growth, and Labor Markets
- Policy Priorities for International Trade and Jobs
Editor: Douglas Lippoldt (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD 2012)
(also see: www.oecd.org/trade/icite) - Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade, and Employment (ILO-UNCTAD 2013)
Co-Editors: David Cheong (International Labor Organization), Marion Jansen (World Trade Organization) and Ralf Peters (UNCTAD) - China’s Industrialization and Agriculture: Domestic and International Consequences
Avraham Ebenstein (Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem) - “Migrant” Workers in Israeli Agriculture and Export Expansion: Is there a Link?
Ayal Kimhi (Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem)
Panel: Farmworkers and Florida Agriculture
- Immigration Reform and Agriculture
Peter Feather (USDA, Office the Chief Economist)
Mike Carlton (Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association)
Tirso Moreno (Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc.)
Luncheon Address
- Agenda to Mitigate Food Price Volatility in Mexico
Rafael Gamboa González (Banco de México, Funds Instituted in Relation to Agriculture – FIRA)
Research Panel
- Labor Markets in Computable General Equilibrium Models
Dorothee Flaig (OECD), Scott McDonald (Oxford Brookes University) and Harald Grethe (Universität Hohenheim) - Cognitive Constructs and the Intent to Remit: Are Norms the Key to Explaining Remitting Behaviour of Kosovar Migrants in Germany
Wiebke Meyer and Judith Möllers (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe) and Gertrud Buchenrieder (Martin-Luther Univ, Halle, Wittenberg) - Foreign Competition and Adjustments to Higher Labor Costs: A CGE Model of U.S. Agriculture
Steven Zahniser and Tom Hertz (USDA, Economic Research Service) and Peter Dixon and Maureen Rimmer (Monash Univ) - The Economic Consequences of Trade and Immigration for Local Labor Markets
Gordon Hanson (Univ of California, San Diego) - Discussion: The Economic Consequences of International Labor Migration and Trade on Local Labor Markets
Discussant: Ivan Kandilov (North Carolina State Univ) - Round Table Discussion
Vince Smith (Montana State Univ)
Tassos Haniotis (European Commission)
Charlotte Emlinger (Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales)
Non-Theme Day Paper Presentations
Non-Theme Day Organizer: Jonathan Coleman (US International Trade Commission)
Session 01: Price Relationships in Agricultural Markets
- Global Crude to Local Food: An Empirical Study of Global Oil Price Pass-through to Maize Prices in East Africa
Brian Dillon (Univ of Washington) and Christopher Barrett (Cornell University) - Pricing Information Network of Fruit and Vegetable Markets of Mexico and the United States
Juana Astorga, Belem Avendaño, and Ana Acosta (la Univ Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico) - Price Dynamics on Agricultural Futures Markets with Heterogeneous Traders
Stephanie Grosche and Thomas Heckelei (Univ of Bonn) - A Decade of Agricultural Price Volatility: Assessing the Evidence
John Baffes (The World Bank) - Early Warnings in Mitigating the Global Effects of El Niño Southern Oscillation
Nelson Villoria (Purdue Univ), and David Ubilava (Univ of Sydney)
Session 02: Perspectives on Trade Agreements and Negotiations
- How Will the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Affect U.S. Meat Exports to Japan?
Andrew Muhammad and Keithly Jones (USDA, Economic Research Service) - Canadian Agriculture and the TPP
Rick Barichello (Univ of British Columbia) - A Decade of Regionalism (2001-2010): A Comprehensive Picture
Jean-Christophe Bureau (Institut National de Recherche Agronomique), Houssein Guimbard, CEPII, France), and Sébastien Jean (Institut National de Recherche Agronomique) - Growing Places: An Empirical Assessment of the Economic Influence of Plant Variety Protection in the TRIPS Era
Douglas Lippoldt (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Session 03: Trade and Productivity in Food and Agriculture: A Discussion of the Old and the New
- Productivity Growth, Trade and Poverty
Will Martin (World Bank) - Firms, Productivity and Trade
Munisamy Gopinath (USDA, Economic Research Service) and Jangho Choi, Oregon State Univ - Firms, Quality Upgrading and Trade
Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University)
Session 04: The Continuing Role of Biofuel Policies on World Food Commodity Prices and International Trade
- The Impact of the Blend Wall and RIN Prices on Prices and International Trade
David R. Just and Justin Shepard (Cornell University) - How Brazil’s Ethanol and Fuel Prices Affect World Food Commodity Prices?
Dusan Drabik (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC, EC, Seville, Spain and LICOS – Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance KU Leuven, Belgium) - Brazilian Renewable Energy Trade: Determinants and Perspectives of International Negotiation
Sílvia Miranda, Michel Augusto Santana da Paixão, and David Henrique Teixeira da Costa (Univ of São Paulo)
Session 05: Policy and Regulation in Agricultural Markets
- A New Market for an Old Food: The US Demand for Olive Oil
Bo Xiong, William Matthews, and Daniel Sumner (Univ of California, Davis) - Policy Space in Agriculture Under the WTO Rules on Domestic Support
Lars Brink, (Independent Advisor, Canada) - A Decade of Agricultural Price Volatility: Assessing the Policy Responses
Tassos Haniotis (European Commission) and John Baffes (The World Bank)
Session 06: Selected Dissertation Reports
- Imperfect Mobility and Heterogeneous Labour in CGE Modelling
Dorothee Flaig (Universität Hohenheim) - Three Essays on Black Sea Grain Markets
Kateryna G. Schroeder (Univ of Missouri, Columbia)
Session 07: U.S. Looks East and West for New Trade Deals
- The Importance of Tariff Rate Quotas in U.S.-EU Trade
Katherine Baldwin (USITC) and John Wainio (USDA, Economic Research Service) - Assessing Non-Tariff Measures in U.S.-E.U. Agricultural Trade
Shawn Arita, Lorraine Mitchell and Jayson Beckman (USDA, Economic Research Service) - CGE Analysis of TPP Market Access Reforms in Agriculture
Mary Burfisher (USDA, Economic Research Service) - Agricultural Trade Costs in the EU and TPP Markets: There’s Plenty of Room for Negotiation
Jason H. Grant (Virginia Tech) and Kathryn Boys (Virginia Tech) - Tariff Liberalization and Agriculture in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Region
Mary Burfisher, John Dyck, Birgit Meade, Lorraine Mitchell, John Wainio, Steven Zahniser, Shawn Arita, and Jayson Beckman (USDA, Economic Research Service)
Session 08: The Future of Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine in Global Grain Trade
- Accession of KRU to the WTO: The Effect of Tariff Reductions on KRU and International Wheat Markets
Saule Burkitbeyeva and William A. Kerr (University of Saskatchewan) - Farm Support in Russia and Ukraine Under the Rules of the WTO
Lars Brink (Independent Advisor, Canada) - Policy Issues and Prospects for Ukraine’s Grain Exports
Kateryna Schroeder and William H. Meyers, University of Missouri, Columbia - Export Restrictions for Wheat in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine
Linde Götz, Ivan Djuric and Thomas Glauben (Leibniz-Institute IAMO)
Session 09: Estimating Trade Models in Agriculture
- A New Market for an Old Food: The U.S. Demand for Olive Oil
Bo Xiong, William Matthews, and Daniel Sumner (Univ of California, Davis) - U.S. Consumer Demand for Olive Oil: An Economietric Analysis from Retail Scanning Data
Jose Signoret (U.S. International Trade Commission) - Box-Cox Double Hurdle Models and the Estimation of Gravity Trade Equations
David R. Thibodeau (Statistics Canada) and J. Stephen Clark (Nova Scotia Agricultural College ) - Between a Cap and a Higher Price: Modeling the Price of Dairy Quotas under Price Ceiling Legislation
Alex Chernoff (Queen’s University, Canada)
Session 10: Factors in Export Competitiveness
- Multinational Retailers and Firm-Level Exports
Angela Cheptea (UMR 1302 SMART, INRA-Rennes, France & IAW Tübingen, Germany); Charlotte Emlinger (CEPII, Paris, France), and Karine Latouche (UR LERECO, INRA-Nantes, France) - Credit Constraints, Technology Choice and Exports: A Firm Level Study for Latin American Countries
Syed Hasan and Ian Sheldon (Ohio State Univ) - Factors Affecting Foreign Demand for U.S. Agricultural Exports
Jaya Jha (PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota) - Impact of Trade Openness on Technical Efficiency: Agricultural Sector of the European Union
Jarret Hart (University of North Dakota)
Session 11: Analysis on Food Consumption Patterns
- Household Composition, Income, and Food Away from Home Consumption in Urban China
Haiyan Liu, Thomas Wahl (North Dakota State Univ), James Seale (Univ of Florida), and Junfei Bai (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) - The Influence of Food Dining Location on Body Mass Index in Urban China
Haiyan Liu and Thomas Wahl (North Dakota State Univ), James Seale (Univ of Florida), and Junfei Bai (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) - Testing Home Market Effect in the Inter-Regional Trade of Korea
Hanho Kim (Seoul National Univ, Korea) - Determinants of Household Food Insecurity in Mexico
David Magnaña-Lemus (Banco de México, Funds Instituted in Relation to Agriculture – FIRA), Ariun Ishdorj and C. Parr Rosson, III (Texas A&M Univ)