Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions?

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which trade agreements affect agricultural trade policy volatility. Using a new panel database compiled as part of the World Bank's agricultural distortions research project, the author...

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Main Authors: Cadot, Olivier, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Tschopp, Jeanne
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
GDP
TAX
WTO
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/904201468336324013/Do-trade-agreeements-reduce-the-volatility-of-agricultural-distortions
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spelling okr-10986-281652021-04-23T14:04:45Z Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions? Cadot, Olivier Olarreaga, Marcelo Tschopp, Jeanne ABSOLUTE VALUE ACCORDS AGRICULTURAL AGREEMENT AGRICULTURAL INCENTIVES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGRICULTURAL TRADE AGRICULTURE AVERAGE TRADE BILATERAL TRADE BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS BORDER MEASURES BORDER POLICY CHANGES IN TRADE COMMODITY COMMON MARKET CONCESSIONS CONSUMERS COUNTRY DUMMIES COUNTRY FIXED EFFECTS CUSTOMS CUSTOMS UNION DEMAND ELASTICITIES DEMAND ELASTICITY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPING REGIONS DIVIDENDS DOMESTIC LAW DOMESTIC MARKETS DOMESTIC PRICE DOMESTIC PRODUCTION DUMPING ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC SIZE ECONOMIC THEORY ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES EQUILIBRIUM EUROPEAN UNION EXPORT DEMAND EXPORT TAX EXPORT TAXES EXPORTS FOOD PRICES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FREE ACCESS FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AREAS FREE-TRADE AGREEMENTS GDP GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS GRAVITY EQUATION IMPACT OF TRADE IMPORT TAXES IMPORTS INCOME INSURANCE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL TRADE MACROECONOMIC SHOCKS MARKET ACCESS MEASURE OF TRADE MEASURES OF VOLATILITY MULTILATERAL LIBERALIZATION MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS NON-TARIFF BARRIERS OPEN ECONOMIES OUTPUT PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACIES POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL REGIMES PREFERENTIAL AGREEMENT PREFERENTIAL AGREEMENTS PREFERENTIAL TRADE PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENTS PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT PRICE DISTORTIONS PRICE VOLATILITY PROTECTION MEASURES REGIONAL AGREEMENTS REGIONAL INTEGRATION REGIONAL INTEGRATION AGREEMENTS REGIONAL TRADE REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS REGIONALISM REGIONALIZATION RULES OF ORIGIN SECURITY CONCERNS SOCIAL WELFARE TARIFF CHANGES TAX TERMS OF TRADE TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE AGREEMENTS TRADE BARRIERS TRADE DISTORTIONS TRADE EXTERNALITIES TRADE FLOWS TRADE IN SERVICES TRADE OBJECTIVES TRADE POLICIES TRADE POLICY TRADE PROMOTION TRADE PROTECTION TRADE REGIME TRADE REGIMES TRADE RULES TRADE SHOCKS TRADING SYSTEM TREATIES URUGUAY ROUND VALUE OF TRADE VOTERS WORLD ECONOMY WORLD PRICES WORLD TRADE WTO The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which trade agreements affect agricultural trade policy volatility. Using a new panel database compiled as part of the World Bank's agricultural distortions research project, the author estimate the effect of regionalism on the volatility of price distortions measured by the absolute value of their first differences, averaged, for each country and year, over all agricultural goods. Using an instrumental-variable approach to correct for the endogeneity of regional trade agreements, (RTAs), the author fined that participation in RTAs has a significantly negative effect on agricultural trade-policy volatility. The author find that the World Trade Organization (WTO) agricultural agreement also contributed to reducing agricultural trade-policy volatility, in spite of the weak disciplines involved, but the effect is only weakly identified. The results are robust to a variety of robustness checks and hold, in particular, for the Latin American sub-sample. 2017-09-07T17:08:37Z 2017-09-07T17:08:37Z 2009-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/904201468336324013/Do-trade-agreeements-reduce-the-volatility-of-agricultural-distortions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28165 English en_US Agricultural Distortions Working Paper;88 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic ABSOLUTE VALUE
ACCORDS
AGRICULTURAL AGREEMENT
AGRICULTURAL INCENTIVES
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
AGRICULTURAL TRADE
AGRICULTURE
AVERAGE TRADE
BILATERAL TRADE
BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
BORDER MEASURES
BORDER POLICY
CHANGES IN TRADE
COMMODITY
COMMON MARKET
CONCESSIONS
CONSUMERS
COUNTRY DUMMIES
COUNTRY FIXED EFFECTS
CUSTOMS
CUSTOMS UNION
DEMAND ELASTICITIES
DEMAND ELASTICITY
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRY
DEVELOPING REGIONS
DIVIDENDS
DOMESTIC LAW
DOMESTIC MARKETS
DOMESTIC PRICE
DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
DUMPING
ECONOMIC POLICY
ECONOMIC SIZE
ECONOMIC THEORY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
EQUILIBRIUM
EUROPEAN UNION
EXPORT DEMAND
EXPORT TAX
EXPORT TAXES
EXPORTS
FOOD PRICES
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FREE ACCESS
FREE TRADE
FREE TRADE AREAS
FREE-TRADE AGREEMENTS
GDP
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS
GRAVITY EQUATION
IMPACT OF TRADE
IMPORT TAXES
IMPORTS
INCOME
INSURANCE
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
MACROECONOMIC SHOCKS
MARKET ACCESS
MEASURE OF TRADE
MEASURES OF VOLATILITY
MULTILATERAL LIBERALIZATION
MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS
NON-TARIFF BARRIERS
OPEN ECONOMIES
OUTPUT
PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACIES
POLITICAL ECONOMY
POLITICAL REGIMES
PREFERENTIAL AGREEMENT
PREFERENTIAL AGREEMENTS
PREFERENTIAL TRADE
PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT
PRICE DISTORTIONS
PRICE VOLATILITY
PROTECTION MEASURES
REGIONAL AGREEMENTS
REGIONAL INTEGRATION
REGIONAL INTEGRATION AGREEMENTS
REGIONAL TRADE
REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
REGIONALISM
REGIONALIZATION
RULES OF ORIGIN
SECURITY CONCERNS
SOCIAL WELFARE
TARIFF CHANGES
TAX
TERMS OF TRADE
TRADE AGREEMENT
TRADE AGREEMENTS
TRADE BARRIERS
TRADE DISTORTIONS
TRADE EXTERNALITIES
TRADE FLOWS
TRADE IN SERVICES
TRADE OBJECTIVES
TRADE POLICIES
TRADE POLICY
TRADE PROMOTION
TRADE PROTECTION
TRADE REGIME
TRADE REGIMES
TRADE RULES
TRADE SHOCKS
TRADING SYSTEM
TREATIES
URUGUAY ROUND
VALUE OF TRADE
VOTERS
WORLD ECONOMY
WORLD PRICES
WORLD TRADE
WTO
spellingShingle ABSOLUTE VALUE
ACCORDS
AGRICULTURAL AGREEMENT
AGRICULTURAL INCENTIVES
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
AGRICULTURAL TRADE
AGRICULTURE
AVERAGE TRADE
BILATERAL TRADE
BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
BORDER MEASURES
BORDER POLICY
CHANGES IN TRADE
COMMODITY
COMMON MARKET
CONCESSIONS
CONSUMERS
COUNTRY DUMMIES
COUNTRY FIXED EFFECTS
CUSTOMS
CUSTOMS UNION
DEMAND ELASTICITIES
DEMAND ELASTICITY
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRY
DEVELOPING REGIONS
DIVIDENDS
DOMESTIC LAW
DOMESTIC MARKETS
DOMESTIC PRICE
DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
DUMPING
ECONOMIC POLICY
ECONOMIC SIZE
ECONOMIC THEORY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
EQUILIBRIUM
EUROPEAN UNION
EXPORT DEMAND
EXPORT TAX
EXPORT TAXES
EXPORTS
FOOD PRICES
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FREE ACCESS
FREE TRADE
FREE TRADE AREAS
FREE-TRADE AGREEMENTS
GDP
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS
GRAVITY EQUATION
IMPACT OF TRADE
IMPORT TAXES
IMPORTS
INCOME
INSURANCE
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
MACROECONOMIC SHOCKS
MARKET ACCESS
MEASURE OF TRADE
MEASURES OF VOLATILITY
MULTILATERAL LIBERALIZATION
MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS
NON-TARIFF BARRIERS
OPEN ECONOMIES
OUTPUT
PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACIES
POLITICAL ECONOMY
POLITICAL REGIMES
PREFERENTIAL AGREEMENT
PREFERENTIAL AGREEMENTS
PREFERENTIAL TRADE
PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT
PRICE DISTORTIONS
PRICE VOLATILITY
PROTECTION MEASURES
REGIONAL AGREEMENTS
REGIONAL INTEGRATION
REGIONAL INTEGRATION AGREEMENTS
REGIONAL TRADE
REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
REGIONALISM
REGIONALIZATION
RULES OF ORIGIN
SECURITY CONCERNS
SOCIAL WELFARE
TARIFF CHANGES
TAX
TERMS OF TRADE
TRADE AGREEMENT
TRADE AGREEMENTS
TRADE BARRIERS
TRADE DISTORTIONS
TRADE EXTERNALITIES
TRADE FLOWS
TRADE IN SERVICES
TRADE OBJECTIVES
TRADE POLICIES
TRADE POLICY
TRADE PROMOTION
TRADE PROTECTION
TRADE REGIME
TRADE REGIMES
TRADE RULES
TRADE SHOCKS
TRADING SYSTEM
TREATIES
URUGUAY ROUND
VALUE OF TRADE
VOTERS
WORLD ECONOMY
WORLD PRICES
WORLD TRADE
WTO
Cadot, Olivier
Olarreaga, Marcelo
Tschopp, Jeanne
Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions?
relation Agricultural Distortions Working Paper;88
description The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which trade agreements affect agricultural trade policy volatility. Using a new panel database compiled as part of the World Bank's agricultural distortions research project, the author estimate the effect of regionalism on the volatility of price distortions measured by the absolute value of their first differences, averaged, for each country and year, over all agricultural goods. Using an instrumental-variable approach to correct for the endogeneity of regional trade agreements, (RTAs), the author fined that participation in RTAs has a significantly negative effect on agricultural trade-policy volatility. The author find that the World Trade Organization (WTO) agricultural agreement also contributed to reducing agricultural trade-policy volatility, in spite of the weak disciplines involved, but the effect is only weakly identified. The results are robust to a variety of robustness checks and hold, in particular, for the Latin American sub-sample.
format Working Paper
author Cadot, Olivier
Olarreaga, Marcelo
Tschopp, Jeanne
author_facet Cadot, Olivier
Olarreaga, Marcelo
Tschopp, Jeanne
author_sort Cadot, Olivier
title Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions?
title_short Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions?
title_full Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions?
title_fullStr Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions?
title_full_unstemmed Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions?
title_sort do trade agreements reduce the volatility of agricultural distortions?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/904201468336324013/Do-trade-agreeements-reduce-the-volatility-of-agricultural-distortions
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28165
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