Trade liberalization and laissez-faire economics are altering the structure of agricultural production and trade. The principle of comparative advantage, a classic tenet of economics, is a useful tool for understanding the future of world agriculture. This study employs a " Revealed Comparative Advantage " approach to investigate patterns of comparative advantage among six major wool exporting ...

International Trade and Biological Invasions: A Queuing Theoretic Analysis of the Prevention Problem by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal Department of Economics, RIT, 92 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604. Internet [email protected] and Hamid Beladi Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105...

A.1. MODELLING AGRICULTURAL TRADE POLICIES............................................................................3 A.2. THE ORIGINS OF ATPSM.............................................................................................................3 A.3. ATPSM A DETERMINISTIC COMPARATIVE STATIC PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL.....................4 A.4. EVALUABLE AND NON-EVALUABLE TRADE POLICIES...

Natural ecosystems provide society with important goods and services. With rapidly increasing populations and excessive utilization of natural resources, humans have been enhancing the production of some services at the expense of others. Although the need for certain trade-offs between conservation and development is urgent, having only a small number of efficient methods to assess such trade-...

This article reviews the performance of the World Trade Organization in the oversight of national regulatory decisions affecting agricultural and food trade. A picture emerges of modest international disciplines on the regulatory decisions of sovereign nations and the need for ongoing improvements. A road map to regulations is presented and empirical assessments of the effects of technical regu...

Growth of total factor productivity has contributed 41 per cent of output growth in Indonesian agriculture since 1975. This study examines the extent to which publicly funded agricultural research within Indonesia has contributed to this productivity growth, while allowing for other possible determinants, including spillovers from international agricultural research, extension, weather changes,...

Abstract Focusing on seven major agricultural commodities with a long history of trade, this study employs data-driven analytics to decipher patterns namely using supervised machine learning (ML), as well neural networks. The ML and network techniques are trained data until 2010 2014, respectively. Results show the high relevance models forecasting trade in near- long-term relative traditional ...