|
|
|
Registros recuperados: 18 | |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
Elmarzougui, Eskandar; Larue, Bruno. |
The relationship between corn and oil prices is not a stable one. We identified three breaks in the relationship between corn and oil prices. The first break coincides with the second oil crisis. The second break marks the end of the agricultural export subsidy war between the EU and the US in the mid 1980s while the third one occurred at the beginning of the ethanol boom at the very end of the 1990s. The relationship between corn and oil prices tends to be stronger when oil prices are highly volatile and when agricultural policies create less distortion. The ethanol boom strengthened the relation between corn and oil prices which are (were not) cointegrated in the fourth regime (first three) regime(s). Impulse response functions confirm that corn prices... |
Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Oil; Corn; Structural changes; Cointegration; Ethanol; Protectionism; Agricultural and Food Policy; C32; Q11; Q17; Q40. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118580 |
| |
|
|
Ghazalian, Pascal L.; Larue, Bruno; West, Gale E.. |
This study investigates the determinants affecting producers’ adoption of some Best Management Practices (BMPs). Priors about the signs of certain variables are explicitly accounted for by testing for inequality restrictions through importance sampling. Education, gender, age, and on-farm residence are found to have significant effects on the adoption of some BMPs. Farms with larger animal production are more apt to implement manure management practices, crop rotation, and riparian buffer strips. Also, farms with larger cultivated acres are more inclined to implement herbicide control practices, crop rotation, and riparian buffer strips. Belonging to an agro-environment club has a positive impact for most BMPs. |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Adoption; Bayesian analysis; Best management practices; Priors; Runoff; Water quality; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Land Economics/Use; Livestock Production/Industries; Q12; Q25; C11. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56655 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Larue, Bruno; Lapan, Harvey E.; Gervais, Jean-Philippe. |
Tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) have replaced quotas at the end of the Uruguay Round. We analyze TRQs when a foreign firm competes against a domestic firm in the latter’s market. Our benchmark is the strategic rent-shifting tariff. We show that the domestic price-equivalent TRQ is a better instrument welfare-wise, as it can extract all of the rents from the foreign firm. We show that different pairs of within-quota tariff and quota can support full rent extraction. The implication is that reduction of the former and enlargement of the latter, holding the above-quota tariff constant, may have no liberalizing effects. The first-best TRQ and the strategic tariff generate different prices. When firms have identical and constant marginal cost, the first-best TRQ... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Financial Economics; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; Political Economy. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90591 |
| |
|
|
Gervais, Jean-Philippe; Larue, Bruno; Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Rau, Marie-Luise; Shutes, Karl; Wieck, Christine; Winchester, Niven. |
We outline new data on non-tariff measures (NTMs) in agricultural trade collected as part of the NTM-Impact project. The data cover product and process standards, conformity assessment measures, and country requirements for the EU and 10 other countries. We create a Heterogeneity Index of Trade (HIT) regulations to aggregate data on different measures, and estimate the impact of regulatory heterogeneity on trade using a gravity framework. Our results suggest that differences in standards reduce trade in beef and pig meat, but have little impact on trade in other agri-food products. |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Non-tariff measures (NTMs); Import requirements; Agri-food trade; Gravity estimation; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103730 |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
West, Gale E.; Larue, Bruno. |
The agri-food industry faces new challenges as consumer demand for new, healthier foods increases. Media headlines frequently mention health benefits from certain foods and food components, and consumers are more health conscious because they are aging. They realize their food choices can reduce their risk of developing chronic illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. The competitive advantages for firms who are the first to bring their food innovations to market will depend in part on the efficacy of their marketing strategies. Firms that can identify and target those consumers who are most interested in trying new foods with enhanced functional health properties will likely be the most successful. This paper identifies attitudinal and sociodemographic... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Health Economics and Policy; Marketing. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45739 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Larue, Bruno; Gervais, Jean-Philippe. |
Trade theorists have demonstrated that different trade policy instruments have different effects on the quality and source of imports. Countervailing duties (CVDs), like specific tariffs, should induce quality upgrading. However, the magnitude and timing of the quality adjustments are influenced by the credibility of the duties that can be legally contested and modified after annual administrative reviews. Index numbers are used to assess the timing and magnitude of the product mix and country mix substitution effects in U.S. pork imports in response to the U.S. CVDs on Canadian exports of live hogs and fresh, chilled, and frozen pork. |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade. |
Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31414 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Gervais, Jean-Philippe; Larue, Bruno. |
This paper investigates PTM behaviour and currency invoicing decisions of Canadian pork exporters in the presence of menu costs. It is shown that when export prices are negotiated in the exporter's currency, menu costs cause threshold effects in the sense that there are bounds within (outside of) which PTM is not (is) observed. Conversely, PTM is not interrupted by menu costs when export prices are denominated in the importer's currency. The empirical model focuses on pork meat exports from Canada to the U.S. and Japan. Hansen's (2000) threshold estimation procedure is used to jointly test for currency invoicing and PTM in the presence of menu costs. Inference is conducted using bootstrap methods. PTM effects are smaller when accounting for currency... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20295 |
| |
|
| |
Registros recuperados: 18 | |
|
|
|