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...

In many developing countries property rights over rural land are maintained through continuous personal use instead of by land titles. We show that removing the link between land use and land rights through the issuance of ownership certificates can result in large-scale adjustments to labor and land allocations. Using the rollout of the Mexican land certification program from 1993 to 2006, we ...

The role of agriculture as an instrument for industrialization had been rigorously conceptualized in the 1960s and 1970s under the classical paradigm of development economics. After many implementation failures under import substitution industrialization policies and protracted neglect of agriculture under the policies of the Washington Consensus that followed the debt crisis, agriculture has g...

We address the following question: When can one person properly be said to be more delay averse than another? In reply, several (nested) comparison methods are developed. These methods yield a theory of delay aversion which parallels that of risk aversion. The applied strength of this theory is demonstrated in a variety of dynamic economic settings, including the classical optimal growth and tr...

The logsum formula, which provides the expected maximum utility for the multinomial logit model, is often used as a measure of welfare. We provide here a closed form formula of the welfare measure of an individual who has not access to his first-best choice, but has access to his rth-best choice, r = 2, ...n, where n is the number of alternatives. The derivation is based on a standard identity ...

هدف از این پژوهش اعتبار سنجی پرسشنامه جدید ۴ عاملی سیستم خود انگیزشی زبان دوم بعنوان یکی عوامل تاثیرگذار بر یادگیری انگلیسی بوده است. در تحقیق طرح پیمایشی به شیوه ی الگوی معادلات ساختاری نوع تحلیل تأییدی استفاده شده تعداد ۵۹۹ نفر (۳۰۸ دانشجوی خانم و ۲۹۱ آقا) سطح پیش متوسطه رده سنی ۲۵-۱۸سال که دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی – واحد تهران شرق رشته های مختلف تحصیلی مشغول تحصیل می باشند، شرکت کردند. آنجائیکه ا...

We develop a version of Afriat’s Theorem that is applicable to a variety of choice environments, beyond the setting of classical consumer theory. This allows us to devise tests for rationalizability in the context of choice data on lotteries, contingent consumption, and intertemporal consumption. We also establish a version of Richter’s Theorem that characterizes the strict rationalizability of...