“Trade and Societal Well-Being”

Organizers: Antoine Bouët, International Food Policy Research Institute

Theme Day Paper Presentations:  “Trade and Societal Well-Being”

Theme Day Organizer:  Antoine Bouét (IFPRI and University of Bordeaux)

• Measuring Globalization and its Consequences – Request slides and link to video
  Niklas Potrafke (IFO Center and Munich University)
  Discussant: Ryan Cardwell (University of Manitoba)
• Societal Well-Being and International Trade: the Food and Nutritional Channel
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  David LaBorde (International Food Policy Research Institute)
  Discussant: David Blandford (Pennsylvania State University)
• Agricultural Trade Policy Outlook: Emerging Trends and Research Topics
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  Robert Johansson (USDA, Office of the Chief Economist)
• Competitiveness: A Blessing or a Curse for Gender Equality?
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  Yana V. Rodgers (Rutgers University)
  Discussant: Margherita Scoppola (Universitá di Macerata)
• No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Job Inquiry and Sickness
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  Chong Xiang (Purdue University)
  Discussant: Thomas Heckelei (University of Bonn)
• Round Table Discussion: Trade and Societal Well-Being
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  Moderator: John Beghin (Iowa State University)
  Discussants: Antoine Bouet (IFPRI and University of Bordeaux), Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (Rutgers University), Luca Salvatici (Roma Tre University), and Ryan Cardwell (University of Manitoba)

Non Theme Day Paper Presentations

Non Theme Day Organizer:  Jonathan Coleman (U.S. International Trade Commission)

Session 01: IATRC Commissioned Papers

• Evaluating Agricultural Domestic Support in Developing Countries
  Badri Narayanan and Roman Keeney (Purdue University)
• Non-Tariff Measures and Agri-Food Trade: Assessment, Measurement and Impact
  Jason Grant (Virginia Tech) and Shawn Arita (USDA, Economic Research Service)
• The Role of Export Restrictions in Agricultural Trade
  Carmen Estrades (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
• Trade Impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy
  Alan Matthews (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Luca Salvatici (Roma Tre University,Italy) and Margherita Scoppola (University of Macerata, Italy)

Session 02: Effects of SPS Regulations on Production and Trade

• Changes in Technology Use in the U.S. Beef Industry: Welfare Analysis and Trade Implications
  Lia Nogueira (University of Nebraska), Kathleen Brooks (University of Nebraska), and David Bullock (University of Illinois)
• The Insect Effect: Phytosanitary Treatments and U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Trade
  Chaoping Xie, Everett Peterson, and Jason Grant (Virginia Tech)
• The Effects of Phytosanitary Regulations on U.S. Imports of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
  Peyton Ferrier (USDA, Economic Research Service)
• Estimating the Effects of Selected Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Technical Barriers to Trade on U.S.-EU Agricultural Trade.
  Shawn Arita, Lorraine Mitchell, and Jayson Beckman (USDA, Economic Research Service)

Session 03: Policy in Agricultural Input Markets and Trade

• Investment and Input Subsidies: A Growing Category of Farm Support Exempted from WTO Limits
  Lars Brink (Independent Advisor)
• The Determinants of Chinese Outward Direct Investment in the Agrifood Industry
  Ivan Kandilov and Kathryn Boys (North Carolina State University)
• Welfare Effects of Reduced Undocumented Labor in the U.S. Produce Sector: A Factor Trade Model of Immigrant Workers
  Gülcan Önel and Andrew Schmitz (University of Florida)
• Political and Public Will for the Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices in Uganda
  Eric D. Raile, Linda M. Young, Amber N. W. Raile (Montana State University), Jackline Bonabana-Wabbi, Julian Kirinya (Makerere University, Uganda), and Lori Ann Post (Yale University)

Session 04: Analytical Dimensions of Trade Modeling

• Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements in Agricultural Trade Models
  David R. Thibodeau (Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture) and J. Stephen Clark (Dalhousie University)
• Quality Upgrading, Trade, and Market Structure in Food-Processing Industries
  Eric Tseng and Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University)
• Assessing the Market Impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy: Does Farmers’ Risk Attitude Matter?
  Alexandre Gohin and Yu Zheng (INRA)
• Eco-Labelling and the Gains from Agricultural and Food Trade: A Ricardian Approach
  Kari Heerman (USDA, Economic Research Service) and Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University)

Session 05: Selected Dissertation Reports

• Corruption and International Trade
  Trina Biswas (Louisiana State University) (Advisor: Lynn Kennedy, Louisiana State University)
• Firm Heterogeneity, Non-Tariff Measures, and International Trade Agreements : The Case of US-EU TTIP Agreement on Beef Trade
  Zeynep Akgul (Purdue University) (Advisor: Nelson Villoria, Kansas State University)
• Agricultural Policies and Food Demand
  Jing Zhao (University of Missouri) (Advisor: Wyatt Thompson, University of Missouri)

Session 06: Analysis of the Impacts of EU-Russian Trade Disruptions on the EU and Neighbood Countries

• Global Economic Impacts of Russian Restrictions on Food Imports
  Alla Golub and Badri Narayanan (Purdue University)
• The Russian Ban on EU Agricultural Imports: What we Learned from a Model Based Assessment
  Koen Dillen (DG Agriculture, European Commission)
• Trade Diversion and High Food Prices – The Impact of the Russian Pig Meat Import Ban
  Ivan Djuric, Linde Götz, and Thomas Glauben (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, Denmark)
• Export of Dairy Products to the Russian Federation: Opportunity and Challenge for Serbian Producers
  Jovana Raickovic (Consultant in Agricultural Economics, Novi Sad, Serbia)

Session 07: Trade Effects of Regional Trade Agreement

• The TPP Agreement and Canada’s Dairy Sector: How Reducing Protection Can Increase Rents
  Rick Barichello (Univ of British Columbia)
• Trans-Pacific Partnership, GMOs, and Japan’s Agricultural Trade
  Andrew Schmitz (University of Florida), David Zilberman (University of California Berkeley), and Manhong Zhu (University of Florida)
• Regionalism without Regions: The Economic Impacts of Cross-Regional Trade Agreements
  Jason Grant and Mary Marchant (Virginia Tech)
• Public Transparency and Non-transparency of Trade Negotiations
  David Bullock (University of Illinois)

Session 08: Price Relationship in Agricultural Markets

• Impacts of Corn Price and Imported Beef Price on Domestic Beef Price in South Korea
  GwanSeon Kim and Mark Tyler (University of Kentucky)
• Analysing Market Integration: An Alternative Approach for Weak Data
  Martijn Kind, Cornelis Gardebroek, and Rico Ihle (Wageningen University)
• Regional Price Transmission in Southern African Maize Markets
  Tracy Davids (Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy, South Africa), Kateryna Schroeder (FAPRI), and Ferdinand Meyer (Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy, South Africa)
• The Case of Stochastic Analysis in Applied Trade Analysis: An Application with the Aglink-Cosimo Model
  Koen Dillen, Sergio Rene Araujo Enciso, Ignacio Perez Dominguez (European Commission)

Session 09: Progress Report on Handbook of International Food and Agricultural Policies

• Agricultural Policy in the US: From Price support and Protectionism, to Subsidies, Payments, and Risk Management
  Joe Glauber (IFPRI) and Anne Effland (USDA, Economic Research Service)
• Organic Foods and the Packaging of Seemingly Desirable Attributes
  Tim Josling (Stanford University)
• The Governance of International Food Aid and Emergency Relief Supplies
  Ryan Cardwell (Univ of Manitoba)
• The Challenge of Meeting Increasing Global Demand for Food and Agricultural Products in a Changed Climate
  David Blandford (Penn State Univ) and Katharina Hassapoyannes (European Parliament Secretariat)

Session 10: Analysis of Food Consumption Patterns

• The Impact of Safe Quality Food Certification on the U.S. Agri-Food Exports with a Focus on Product Quality
  Jun Ho Seok, Michael Reed, and Sayed Saghaian (University of Kentucky)
• Impact of India’s Food Security Policy across Household Types
  Dileep Birur (RTI International), Angel Aguiar, and Badri Narayanan (Purdue University)
• Developments in the U.S. Organic Export Market and the Impact of Equivalency Agreements
  Bryce Cooke, Gustavo Ferreira, Catherine Greene, Kristy Plattner, and Nina Wells (USDA, Economic Research Service)
• The Effectiveness of Policy Options to Improve Global Diets
  Andrew Muhammad (USDA, Economic Research Service) and Dariush Mozaffarian (Tufts University)

Session 11: Factors in Agricultural Export Competitiveness and Foreign Investment

• The Determinants of Cognac Exports
  Antoine Bouët (University of Bordeaux and International Food Policy Research Institute), Charlotte Emlingery (CEPII), and Viola Lamaniz (University of Bordeaux)
• Survival of the Fittest: Export Duration in U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Markets
  Everett Peterson (Virginia Tech), Jason Grant (Virginia Tech), and Jeta Rudi (University of Minnesota)
• Export Growth Effects of Foreign Tariff Reduction in the Korean Food Processing and Manufacturing Industry
  Hyesun Jung, Jae-Kyung Kim (Korea International Trade Association), and Hanho Kim (Seoul National University)