The application of trade and growth theories to agriculture: a survey

Berkum, S. van; Meijl, Hans van

doi:10.1111/1467-8489.00123

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“…In the long run, the sector that is thought to be successful performs less well than partial competitiveness studies predict. The better performing sectors can pay an additional ''rent'' for the production factors (labor and/or capital) and outperform the high, but domestically lower performing sectors (van Berkum & van Meijl, 2000).…”

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An economic and legal assessment of the EU food industry's competitiveness

Wijnands¹,

Bremmers

Meulen

et al. 2008

Agribusiness

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The objective of this article is to assess the competitiveness of the European food industry from an economic and legal perspective. Knowledge of its present competitiveness and improvement opportunities are lacking. To close this knowledge gap, we measured the competitiveness of eight subsectors, benchmarked them with four leading world economies, assessed the effect of differences in legal requirements, and predicted future developments using scenario analysis. International economics indicators supplemented with data on legal issues from a survey conducted by leading experts were used to measure competitiveness. The results show that the EU food industry's competitiveness is weak. The legal system was positively evaluated compared to the U.S. system, but major improvements are possible. The recommendations are to improve economies of scale, economies of scope, ICT-based supply chain management, and exploit cultural differences through innovation, within a more flexible and streamlined legal framework. [Econlit. Citations:F14, L66; Q13]. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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An economic and legal assessment of the EU food industry's competitiveness

Wijnands¹,

Bremmers

Meulen

et al. 2008

Agribusiness

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“…Trade in agricultural goods has traditionally been explained by comparative advantages and neoclassical trade theory. However, explanations of international trade in agricultural products through new trade theory are increasingly relevant (van Berkum and van Meijl 2000). McCorrison and Sheldon (1991) have shown that US-European intraindustry trade in processed agricultural products was of growing importance already in the period 1977-1986.…”

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Effects of Tariffication: Tariffs and Quotas under Monopolistic Competition

Jørgensen

Schröder

2007

Open Econ Rev

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Recent rounds of GATT and later WTO have advocated widespread tariffication, meaning that existing non-tariff barriers be converted into import equivalent tariffs. From an economic point of view, the effects of such tariffication are not entirely clear. The paper presents a trade model with monopolistic competition to examine the welfare effects of tariffication. The ranking of pre- and post-tariffication welfare crucially depends on the nature of the initial trade barrier and the tariff tool applied. Tariffication using a specific (ad valorem) tariff results in the same (reduced) welfare level compared to an initial sold quota, whereas welfare is increased (the same) compared to an initial shared quota. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007Trade policy, Tariffication, Specific tariff, Ad valorem tariff, Quota, Tariff rate quotas, VER, F02, F12, F13,

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“…The landscape of trade in agriculture has been changing across the globe. However, more attention is given to the trade in processed food and agricultural products than trade in raw agricultural products (Berkum and Meij, 2000) which form the bulk of poor countries' markets.…”

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“…Some studies have attempted to link trade theories to food and agriculture in recent times (Abbott and Kallio, 1996;Berkum and Meij, 2000;Josling et al, 2010;Pokriv ák, Ciaian and Kancs, 2011;Campi and Duenas, 2014), however, most of these studies concentrated mainly in processed food and agricultural products in the developed countries or regional trading blocs such as the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU). To the best of my knowledge, these studies have not given much attention to trade theories with reference to trade in raw agricultural products of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), thus the importance of this study.…”

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