Domestic Trade Frictions and Agriculture

Domestic Trade Frictions and Agriculture

I develop a model of heterogeneous land quality and study the relation between trade, farming productivity and welfare in Peru, where high domestic and international trade costs pose a major barrier to efficient farming. To quantify the model, I use a new dataset on spatially disaggregated crop prices, yields and land allocations. I then use the model to measure the welfare and productivity eff...

Online Appendix for “Domestic Trade Frictions and Agriculture”

In this section I characterize the optimal choices of farmers. I discuss the optimal choices of farmers for a plot ω, conditional on allocating a positive fraction of plot ω to the production of crop k, (φi,k (ω) > 0), an event I denote ω ∈ Ωi,k. Then I move on to prove the three main Propositions in the paper. Using Assumptions #1 and #2, I first show how to calculate the fraction of land allo...

Food Fights and Free Trade: International institutions and domestic politics in agriculture trade negotiations

Note: This paper is preliminary work for my dissertation. In this paper I set out the framework of my argument giving hypotheses and describing independent variables and expectations for evidence which would confirm or deny my theory. I give a brief discussion of some results from one part of the quantitative section for US-Japan negotiations. In the coming months I will be adding further data ...

Trade, Size, and Frictions: the Gravity Model

SHARED HARVESTS: Agriculture, Trade, and Employment Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment

9 7 8 9 2 2 1 2 6 8 1 2 3 IL O -U N C TA D S H A R E D H A R VE S TS : A gr ic ul tu re , Tr ad e, a nd E m pl oy m en t Agriculture employs more than a billion people in developing countries, representing 48 per cent of the developing-country labour force. This book analyses how agricultural trade affects labour markets in developing countries and in particular what it implies for the creation...