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ABSTRACT This study examines food price inflation rate convergence among EU27 Member States from 2005 to 2024, focusing on structural breaks, external shocks, and regional disparities. Using panel unit root tests and club convergence analysis, the findings reveal no overall convergence but identify multiple convergence clubs.
Tibor Bareith, Imre Fertő
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Economic Effects of Russia’s Trade Liberalization: Russia’s WTO Accession and FTAs with EU and Korea
This paper estimates the economic impacts of the various liberalization scenarios of Russia (accession to the WTO, Russia-EU FTA, and Korea-Russia FTA) using GTAP recursive dynamic and capital accumulation models.
Chang-Soo Lee , Backhoon Song
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The Xenocentric Mindset: Cultural and Personality Drivers Behind Consumer Preferences
ABSTRACT This study examines the psychological and cultural dimensions that influence consumer xenocentrism in Brazil and Iran, focusing on horizontal–vertical individualism–collectivism and the “Big Five” personality traits—extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and intellect/imagination.
José I. Rojas‐Méndez +3 more
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Liberalizing Agricultural Trade: Will It Ever Be a Reality?
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture was signed in June 1994. It accomplished two things: it brought agricultural trade under the rules of WTO, and it set schedules for reducing barriers to trade under the three pillars of ...
Alex F. McCalla
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Social networks and trade liberalization [PDF]
We discuss how social considerations can affect the desirability of trade liberalization in a conventional small open economy model. We consider a representative family in which there are location specific network effects from interactions with other family members, such as joint consumption, joint emotional support, and coinsurance.
Manish Pandey, John Whalley
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A consensus model in legislative decision‐making: The council of the European Union
Abstract The culture of consensus influences legislative decision‐making within the Council of the European Union, often leading to broad coalitions in which even the preferences of isolated member states are considered. Nevertheless, despite its significance, this culture has been insufficiently studied through formal models predicting EU legislative ...
Arash Pourebrahimi
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The effects of Liberalization in Trade and Finance on Production Volatility in Iranian Economy [PDF]
In recent decades, the policies of financial and trade liberalization have been considered in most of the world countries, and there are different experiences in this regard.
Mohsen Ebrahimi, Hamid Reza Larti
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Misallocation under Trade Liberalization
This paper formalizes a classic idea that in second-best environments trade can induce welfare losses: incremental income losses from distortions can outweigh trade gains. In a Melitz model with distortionary taxes, we derive sufficient statistics for welfare gains/losses and show departures from the efficient case (Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodríguez ...
Bai, Yan, Jin, Keyu, Lu, Dan
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